View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich mb-code 1645942 The Beatles

The Beatles

exaggeratedly attenuated below the waist

Thomas Buzzard was not a Fellow of the Royal Society

he served as its President from 1830 to 1838

View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich mb-code 1645942 The BeatlesLandscape from behind the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House) at Greenwich, which appears on the right of the print. The observatory's 60 foot refracting telescope is visible, mounted on a flagpole. Downhill from the observatory is Greenwich and the river Thames. Several figures inhabit the scene including (lower right) an artist in the act of drawing. Plate 7 from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta