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Smyth, Charles Piazzi
English (b. Italy, 1819-1900)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Sheepshanks telescope
BOOK TITLE: "Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds", London, Lovell Reeve Publ., 1858

1858
PUBLISHER: Reeve, Lovell
albumen print
6.0 x 7.0 cm. (each, arched top)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
95:0152:0005

INSCRIPTION: printed on the mount on the top of image: "Photo-Stereograph 5" printed below image: "Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance, p. 131" "Printed by A.J. Melhuish, under the superintendence of James Glaisher Esq.r F.R.S. and published by Lovell Reeve"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/96, MAP. One plate (no. 15) is missing in this copy of the book. See RB DP 302 349 56 for a complete copy.

SUBJECTS:
artifact, telescope
landscape, mountain
landscape, figures in

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