Maker: Patroni, Pietro

Year: 1700 c.+25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Milan, Italy

Signature: Pierre Patroni à Milan

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 69

Sources:

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument to See Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2009. p.86-87. #74.

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2013. p.91. #69.

Public Notes:

"Main tube and ferrules covered with black shark skin. Five green coloured drawtubes with gold tooling and ivory caps. A 4-element compound eyepiece is contained inside the tube illustrated with red and blue coloured marbled paper. This tube (with the eyepiece inside it) belongs in the smallest drawtube with the green colour. Length 27-95 cm, Ø 4 cm. Signed on the objective: ‘Pierre Patroni à Milan’. First quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 950

Length (closed): 270

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: glass, sharkskin, paper, ivory, gold tooling

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