Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack London Published July 1st

London Published July 1st

View with a shepherd and a woman in the foreground

The accompanying text states that 'This beautiful specimen

Sir John Musgrave

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack London Published July 1stMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 6 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south west, showing the machinery of the second and third galleries. Beside the telescope is a