Description

Aquatint etching depicting the interior of the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford showing three telescopes and a globe.

"F. Mackenzie delt. // J. Bluck sculpt. // ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. // London. Pubd. Feby. 1 1814 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford."

Additional Information

From the collection of D. J. Lovell, author of "Optical Anecdotes" (International Society for Optical Engineering, 1981).