- Subject
- Calculation
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Lent by the Oxford City & County Museum.
- Physical material
- Brass
- Object type
- Sector
- Inventory No
- 40175
- Accession Number
- 1973-15
Description
Constructed to the pattern of Joshua Kirby as published in The Perspective of Architecture, 1761. George Adams senior is the only known maker of this particular form of architectonic sector.
For a separately surviving pair of sectoral legs for this pattern of instrument, see inv. 76416.
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