'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm possibly a member of the

possibly a member of the Towneley family

Two journalists

Portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with a lace ruff and beard

'The Sunday Question'

'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm possibly a member of theView of Trevandrum Observatory from the north west. The main observatory is shown on small hill on the skyline. The observatory was designed and constructed in 1837 by W. H. Horsley, a lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, under the patronage of Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813 1846) Maharaja of the State of Travancore [now Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India]. Plate 2 from Description of an observatory established at Trevandrum by his