Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Daniell Self and Partner

Self and Partner

showing Queen Victoria seated in the foreground surrounded by her family and other guests

'Fakeer attached to the Suite of the Governor General in Camp'

sculpted by Maximilian Colt

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Daniell Self and PartnerMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 5 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south east, the stage of the first gallery slightly raised. The instrument's scale is