Accession No

3758

Brief Description

prints of astronomical instruments of the early 19th Century, by J. Farey and Wilson Lowry, English, 1813-1820

Origin

England; London; Paternoster Row

Maker

Farey, J. [draughtsman] Lowry, Wilson [engraver]

Class

prints; astronomy

Earliest Date

1813

Latest Date

1820

Inscription Date

Material

paper

Dimensions

height 268mm; breadth 214mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased, 19/10/1988.

Inscription

‘ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS.’ (top of each print)
for other inscriptions see description notes

Description Notes

Nine plates taken from Rees’s Cyclopaedia (1811-1820)
3758.1: ‘PLATE III.’ Shows ‘The English REFLECTING CIRCLE by Troughton’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Junr. delin. Published as the Act directs, 1816, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. Lowry Sc.’
3758.2: ‘PLATE V.’ Shows ‘Ramsden’s CIRCLE’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Junr. delin. Published as the Act directs, 1818, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. Lowry Sc.’
3758.3: ‘PLATE VII.’ Shows ‘The Repeating CIRCLE without reflection by Troughton’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Junr. delin. Published as the Act directs, 1820, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. Lowry sc.’
3758.4: ‘PLATE XI.’ Shows ‘Portable Equatorial Instruments’ by Short, Ramsden, Fayrer and Dollond. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Jun. del. Published as the Act directs, 1816, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row London. Lowry sculp.’
3758.5: ‘PLATE XIII.’ Shows ‘Equatorial Stand of a Telescope’ and ‘Mr. Graham’s Equatorial Sector’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘Published as the Act directs, 1814, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, Paternoster Row, London. Lowry sculp.’
3758.6: ‘PLATE XIX.’ Shows ‘GRADUATION. Troughton’s method of Graduating a Circle’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Jun. delin. Published as the Act directs, 1813, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, London. Engraved by W. Lowry .’
3758.7: ‘PLATE XX.’ Shows ‘Troughton’s method of Graduating a Circle’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey Junr. delin. Published as the Act directs, 1813, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Co. Paternoster Row. Engraved by W. Lowry.’
3758.8: ‘PLATE XXIII.’ Shows ‘Troughton’s QUADRANT.’, ‘Hadley’s OCTANT.’, ‘Ramsden’s QUADRANT.’, ‘Cole’s QUADRANT.’, ‘Gunter’s QUADRANT.’, ‘Graham’s Mural QUADRANT.’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘J. Farey delin. Published as the Act directs, 1819, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. Lowry Sc.’
3758.9: ‘PLATE XXXII.’ Shows ‘TRANSIT INSTRUMENTS.’. Inscribed at bottom of print ‘Farey delin. Published as the Act directs, 1819, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, London. Lowry sculp.’

Condition good; complete

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