Maker: Campi, Giovanni Battista

Year: 1750 c.+25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Genoa, Italy

Signature: Gio Batta Campi in Genoua

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 75

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.91. #80.

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.94. #75.

Public Notes:

"Main tube covered with grey coloured sharkskin. Four green coloured drawtubes. The ferrules are made of horn. The rings at the objective and eyepiece are made of ivory . Signed with black ink on the fourth (longest) drawtube:‘Gio Batta Campi in Genoua’. Length 22-63 cm, Ø 3.5 cm. Third quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 630

Length (closed): 220

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: horn, ivory, sharkskin

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