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Creator:: Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1782]
Call Number:: Drawings R514 no. 1 Box D207
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: King George III is standing with a woman holding a parasol (possibly Herschel's sister and assistant Caroline) observing two men operating a massive 40 ft. reflecting telescope suspended in a complex framework of wooden supports, cables, pulleys, and ...
Description:: Title, date, and artist supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):: Slough (England)
Subject (Name):: Herschel, William, 1738-1822. and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):: Reflecting telescopes, Telescopes, Astronomical instruments, and Astronomy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sir William Herschel exhibiting his great telescope to George III at Slough 1782] [art original].

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1698]
Call Number:: Print10255
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Large palace yard lined with porticos, with draped people engaged in activities representing sciences and arts, and royal coat of arms with crown, fleur-de-lys and insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit in the lower part."--British Museum online c...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Anatomy, Anatomy, Comparative, Castles & palaces, Porticoes (Porches), Covered walks, Science, Art, Globes, Scientific equipment, Astronomical instruments, and Coats of arms
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > L'Academie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1843?]
Call Number:: 843.00.00.25
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Messrs. Fores and Printed by W. Kohler
Subject (Geographic):: China.
Subject (Topic):: Astronomers and Astronomical instruments
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Principal attendents on the celestial bodies [graphic].

Published / Created:: 10 June 1776.
Call Number:: 776.06.10.03
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of h...
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairdressing, Astronomical instruments, Ladders, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ridiculous taste [graphic].