Maker: Dolci [attributed]

Year:

Year Range: 1763-1793

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Manufacturing Location: Venice, Italy

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 79

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.92. #84.

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.95. #79.

Public Notes:

"Main tube covered with black coloured sharkskin. Seven drawtubes, covered with decorative paper. Ferrules and fittings of objective and eyepiece made of olive wood. Length 64-298 cm, Ø 10.5 cm. Objective lens is missing. Unsigned, but based on an almost identical specimen, signed: ‘Fratelli Dolci’ in the Willach-collection, Switzerland, attributable to the Dolci-brothers, a workshop in Venice operational between 1763 and 1793" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 2980

Length (closed): 640

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Object status:

Objective type: unconfirmed

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Materials: paper, sharkskin, wood

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