- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Tesla Studios
- Provenance
- Probably from the University Observatory, Oxford.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's details on front of mount: 'Tesla Studios | Art Photographers | Sydney.' and advertising text on back. Elaborate 'Tesla' design on protector tissue.
- Dimensions
- Height: 135mm Width: 96mm
- Inventory No
- 12699
Description
Portrait of John Tebbutt, standing half length facing front, posing near the eye-end of his telescope (presumably his 8-inch equatorial refractor of 1886), his right hand adjusting it. Mounted on card and with a tissue protector (detached). Vertical format. Companion of 12700 (his obervatory).
John Tebbutt (1834-1916), astronomer, discovered the comet of 1861 and first established his observatory at Peninsula, Windsor, New South Wales in 1864. By the 1900s he was one of the most renowned amateur astronomers in the world
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