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Birr Castle, Count Offaly, Ireland, home of the Earl of Rosse, c1880.
Birr Castle, Count Offaly, Ireland, home of the Earl of Rosse, c1880. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, a keen astronomer, had what was then the largest telescope in the world built at Rosse Castle in 1845. It was known as the Leviathan of Parsonstown. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume III, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.
Unique Identifier
AR973223
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4935px × 3539px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
3rd Earl of Rosse
AF;Alexander Francis Lydon;Alexander Lydon
Architecture
Aristocracy
Astronomy
Benjamin Fawcett;Fawcett
Benjamin; AF Lydon;Lydon
Birr
Birr Castle
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
Castle
color
country
COUNTRY HOUSE
Earl
Earl of
Earl of Rosse
Engraving
Exterior
Fortification
Garden
House
Ireland
Irish
Leinster
LOCATION
Lord Rosse
NATURE
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Offaly
OUTSIDE
Parkland
Parsons
Parsonstown
Plant
Print Collector8
Rosse
Science
STATELY HOME
TGN
The Print Collector
Tree
WILLIAM
William Parsons