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Description: | Print, engraving, mezzotint, portrait, 'JOHN BIRD of LONDON, Who furnished the Chief Observatories of the World, with the most Capital Astronomical Instruments divided by him after an improved method of his own ...', Lewis Pinxit, engraved and published by Valentine Green, engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine, Sailsbury Street, Strand c1776 [2nd state][London]. Print, mezzotint, [cut to] platemark 35.5x25.4cm, framed, portrait, John Bird (c 1709-1776), HL to L, seated at table with curtain backdrop, arm resting on his diagram of a mural quadrant, the Greenwich Brass Mural Quadrant; described in his The Method of Constructing Mural Quadrants, 1768, also on table. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | engraving mezzotint print portrait | Temporal: | 1776 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Lewis, G. | Identifier: | 1857-305 | Go to resource |
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