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Collection Area Visual Arts Language Not applicable Subject Optical Devices

1. Godwin Photo 14/1(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 14/1(95)
Title:
Dover Harbour. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '5573-7-32 / RRS 20 + 20 / Day 6 p.85 - with one of the harbour pics / Dover Harbour / 4*'. Genre: Portrait Photography An elderly man wearing a cap looks through his telescope which is pointing out to the harbour. The protective cover shows the crop lines and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1166/1(118)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/1(118)
Title:
Aziza spying [Tral]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Snapshot view, showing the tracker Aziza, seated on a ridge, looking through a telescope, during a hunting trip in Tral in December 1913.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 item

3. Talbot Photo 1(228)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(228)
Title:
Swansea Pilots. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Quality rating 'A' in pencil and inscribed in ink on verso: '111. Swansea Pilots'. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of two men leaning on the harbour wall, looking out to sea, one with a telescope held to his eye. Image size 87 x 104 mm with paper tabs on verso.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 1847
Extent:
1 item

4. Talbot Photo 13(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 13(40)
Title:
[Sir David Brewster with Talbot's microscope, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of Sir David Brewster seated beside a small table on which a microscope stands. Brewster, wearing a top hat, stares directly at the camera. Chemistry float-applied on paper 188 x 225 mm. For a discussion of this image, see text by Larry J. Scha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1842
Extent:
1 item

5. Talbot Photo 21(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 21(49)
Title:
[Drawing of a Microscope.]
Scope & Content:
Drawing in ink of a microscope showing the function of the lenses, notes written in Talbot's hand.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

6. X.1067, 2(571)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1067, 2(571)
Title:
Telescopes; Buron. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
View of two of the telescopes exhibited by the French maker Buron.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

7. X.1067, 2(584)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1067, 2(584)
Title:
Disc of flint glass; Chance, Brothers, and Co. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
View of the large piece of optical glass, 29 inches in diameter, exhibited by Chance Brothers. On first inspection by the jury, no opinion could be given as to its quality because of unevenness of the surface. After polishing, it was again examined and finally won a Council Medal, although the j...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

8. X.1067, 2(587)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1067, 2(587)
Title:
Optical glass; Daguet. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
Arrangement of several specimens of 'astronomical glass' of various sizes, manufactured by Theodore Daguet of Switzerland: '…They were all found to be good … Mr. Daguet, by a process of his own, gives to flint glass a degree of hardness not attained by any other manufacturer; his glass, particul...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

9. X.1250(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1250(13)
Title:
Observatoire de Nice. Intérieur du Gd. Equatorial. — Grande Lunette. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Interior of the great Equatorial building, showing the telescope.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1887
Extent:
1 item

10. X.1250(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1250(14)
Title:
Observatoire de Nice. Oculaire de la Grande Lunette. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography View of the eyepiece of the Great Equatorial Telescope at Nice Observatory.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1887
Extent:
1 item