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Description: | Print, portraits, Thomas Phelps, aged 82, [and] John Bartlett / James Watson fecit.. - [2nd state]. Printed & Published March 14th 1778 by James Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street, London, 1778. Engraving and mezzotint; 45x31cm., image platemark 35.3x27.8cm., text platemark 7x27.7cm, frame 57.5x42.5x2cm. Image plate cut at bottom, figures placed on globe and regulator, inscription added beneath on separate plate. Pull trimmed to platemarks. Watermark: IHS (similar to Heawood 2997). Phelps stands in observatory at Shirburn Castle, seat of George Parker 2nd Earl Macclesfield, looking through transit telescope. Bartlett, his assistant, perched on observer's chair frame, prepares to record. Foreground, celestial globe; background L, telescope with altazimuth mounting on braced tripod stand; R, astronomical regulator. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | engraving mezzotint print portrait | Temporal: | 1778 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Watson, James | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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