Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia luggage straps

luggage straps

The Great Subscription Room

armed with his truncheon

showing houses and shops

Original: ink wash on paper

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia luggage strapsRough elevation of an equatorially mounted reflecting telescope supported by a cast iron frame. An observer is shown seated on a platform at the top of the tube. The sketch is part of a letter written from Nasmyth's Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, Manchester to the Earl of Rosse, discussing design ideas for the "Great [Melbourne] Telescope". With a pencil inscription upper left "wood cut width to size of paper". Original: ink on paper. 1852