- 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. Address stamp on front of mount: 'Observatory, | Peninsula, Windsor, | N. S. Wales.'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 97mm Width: 135mm
- Inventory No
- 12700
Description
View of John Tebbutt's observatory, showing the three principal buildings and (in foreground) meteorological instruments. Mounted on card with tissue protector. Horizontal format. Companion of 12699 (portrait of Tebbutt).
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. He also for many years issued meteorological observations.
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