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Sidrophel Examining the Kite Through His Telescope (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 10), William Hogarth British, Etching and engraving
Sidrophel Examining the Kite Through His Telescope (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 10)
William Hogarth
Author Illustrates Samuel Butler
1721–26
The True Method of Sitting a Horse, Mathematically Delineated, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
The True Method of Sitting a Horse, Mathematically Delineated
Multiple artists/makers
1809
Le telescope de la place de la Bastille, Louis Vert French, Gelatin silver transparency on glass
Le telescope de la place de la Bastille
Louis Vert
ca. 1900
Microscope, Brass, mahogany, British
Microscope
British
probably early 19th century
Astronomy, Louis Félix de La Rue French, Etching
Astronomy
Louis Félix de La Rue
After François Boucher
Vicksburg Canal (from Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck American, Etching
Vicksburg Canal (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
1861–63
Mount Fuji from the series Famous Mountains in Japan, Utagawa Yoshimori Japanese, Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan
Mount Fuji from the series Famous Mountains in Japan
Utagawa Yoshimori
ca. 1865
John Bull Making Observations on the Comet, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
John Bull Making Observations on the Comet
Multiple artists/makers
November 10, 1807
Sight, François Boucher French, Etching and engraving
Sight
François Boucher
Publisher Gabriel Huquier
1720–70
John Bull Making Observations on the Comet, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
John Bull Making Observations on the Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
After George Murgatroyd Woodward
Publisher Thomas Tegg
November 10, 1807
Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck
Thomas Rowlandson
Publisher Thomas Tegg
September 20, 1811
Adèlaïde... Il me semble que je vois... la comète! (Adelaide... I think I see the comet!), from "Croquis Parisiens", Honoré Daumier French, Lithograph; third state of three (Daumier)
Adèlaïde... Il me semble que je vois... la comète! (Adelaide... I think I see the comet!), from "Croquis Parisiens"
Honoré Daumier
Printer Destouches
Publisher Aaron Martinet
February 18, 1857
Sight, Abraham Bosse French, Etching
Sight
Abraham Bosse
Publisher Melchior Tavernier and François Langlois, Paris
1635–38
Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck
Thomas Rowlandson
Publisher Thomas Tegg
September 20, 1811
Spectacles and Telescope with Cases, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese, Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, Japan
Spectacles and Telescope with Cases
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
19th century
Still Life: Double Cherry-Blossom Branch, Telescope, Sweet Fish, and Tissue Case, Katsushika Hokusai Japanese, Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, Japan
Still Life: Double Cherry-Blossom Branch, Telescope, Sweet Fish, and Tissue Case
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1804–13
Wenzel Jamnitzer, Jost Amman Swiss, Etching
Wenzel Jamnitzer
Jost Amman
16th century
Telescope with Its Bag, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese, Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, Japan
Telescope with Its Bag
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
19th century
Vision, Chez Huquier French, Etching and engraving
Vision
Artist and publisher Chez Huquier
After François Boucher
18th century
New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Amerigo Vespucci Discovering the Southern Cross with an Astrolabium, plate 18, Jan Collaert I Netherlandish, Engraving
New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Amerigo Vespucci Discovering the Southern Cross with an Astrolabium, plate 18
Jan Collaert I
After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Publisher Philips Galle
ca. 1600
The Complicated R_____n, Richard Livesay British, Etching
The Complicated R_n
Probably etched by Richard Livesay
After William Hogarth
Subject Refers to Jonathan Richardson Sr.
1794 (?)
Globe with Mapping Instruments, Edme Bouchardon French, Etching and engraving
Globe with Mapping Instruments
Edme Bouchardon
Engraved by Etienne Fessard
18th century
Sketches of Telescopes on a Ship's Deck (from Sketchbook), Albert Bierstadt American, Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather cover, American
Sketches of Telescopes on a Ship's Deck (from Sketchbook)
Albert Bierstadt
ca. 1891
The Incurable, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
The Incurable
Multiple artists/makers
April 4, 1784
Taste, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching
Taste
Thomas Rowlandson
After George Murgatroyd Woodward
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London
April 2, 1801
Two Philosophers Watching an Eclipse, Pierre Brebiette French, Etching
Two Philosophers Watching an Eclipse
Pierre Brebiette
1615–42
View of the Observatory, Oxford, Thomas Rowlandson British, Hand-colored etching and aquatint
View of the Observatory, Oxford
Thomas Rowlandson
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London
May 1, 1810
Telescope, Lill Tschudi Swiss, Linocut
Telescope
Lill Tschudi
1930
Thereza, John Dillwyn Llewelyn British, Welsh, Salted paper print
Thereza
John Dillwyn Llewelyn
1853–56
Galileo and personifications of Astronomy, Perspective and Mathematics, frontispiece for 'Opere di Galileo Galilei', Stefano della Bella Italian, Etching
Galileo and personifications of Astronomy, Perspective and Mathematics, frontispiece for 'Opere di Galileo Galilei'
Stefano della Bella
Author Galileo Galilei
1656
Savants au comble de la joie en contemplant le premier petit crocodile né e France..., from La Société d'Acclimatations, published in Le Charivari, October 23, 1858, Honoré Daumier French, Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Savants au comble de la joie en contemplant le premier petit crocodile né e France..., from La Société d'Acclimatations, published in Le Charivari, October 23, 1858
Honoré Daumier
Printer Destouches
Publisher Aaron Martinet
October 23, 1858
Beaker with allegorical figures of the Senses, Glass, Bohemian
Beaker with allegorical figures of the Senses
Bohemian
17th–18th century
The Wonderful Universe Explorer, The Great 36-inch Equatorial Telescope, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California, Underwood & Underwood American, Albumen silver prints
The Wonderful Universe Explorer, The Great 36-inch Equatorial Telescope, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California
Publisher Underwood & Underwood
1902
Archimède riant des efforts impuissants que font les Anglais pour mettre à flot le Leviathan, from "Actualités", Honoré Daumier French, Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Archimède riant des efforts impuissants que font les Anglais pour mettre à flot le Leviathan, from "Actualités"
Honoré Daumier
Printer Destouches
Publisher Aaron Martinet
December 5, 1857
Sight, from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens), Abraham Bosse French, Etching
Sight, from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)
Abraham Bosse
Publisher Melchior Tavernier and François Langlois, Paris
1635–38
Telescope from Modern Wonders of the World Educational Pictures (W608-5) , Commercial color photolithograph
Telescope from Modern Wonders of the World Educational Pictures (W608-5)
ca. 1950–55

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