Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia View of Kingsland Chapel

View of Kingsland Chapel

'Fatal effects of gluttony

showing houses and shops

armed with his truncheon

View of Newcastle House at the junction of Lincoln's Inn Fields

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia View of Kingsland ChapelRough 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