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(Richard the Lionheart)

lower right

'Vauxhall Gardens'

26th August 1974

Interior view showing an astronomer on a flight of stairs with one hand on the wall-mounted 10 foot quadrant with a telescopic sight designed for the old Royal Observatory building by Robert Hooke

St John the Evangelist stratford (Richard the Lionheart)St John the Evangelist, 8th century (1892). From the Lindisfarne Gospels. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume I, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1892.

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