- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner in 2006.
- Primary inscriptions
- Signed within the image 'Rowlandson 1810.'. Captioned: 'View of the Observatory. Oxford. / London, Publish'd May 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts; 101, Strand.'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 234mm Width: 324mm
- Inventory No
- 13478
- Accession Number
- 2007-11
Description
View of the Radcliffe Observatory, front (north) side, with caricature figures on the lawn in the foreground, and two telescopes. The building is seriously depicted, but the focus of attention and main colouring is on the foreground figures; one telescope is credible but the other, while set up as a solar projector, is being looked through from the top end as if it were a giant microscope.
The print is slightly faded and damaged, and currently mounted on acidic card, which needs removing.
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