sculptures inside the "Italian Court" London Exhibition - an interpretation of the Michelangelo sculpture "Tomb of Medici", Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London
sculptures inside the "Italian Court" London Exhibition - an interpretation of the Michelangelo sculpture "Tomb of Medici", Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London
Subject name
Crystal Palace Italian Court; Tomb of Medici
Inscription
JCB Last
T/- 5/6
engraved in the glass: Yeates & Son Dublin
Keyword technique
daguerreotype
links
Stereo plates
Yes
Window size
Height
68 mm / 2.68 inch
Width
59 mm / 2.32 inch
Housing size
Height
83 mm / 3.27 inch
Width
173 mm / 6.81 inch
Depth
5 mm / 0.2 inch
Window shape
Arched
Housing shape
Rectangle
Collection
Identifier
Collectie Herman Maes, Belgium
Description
Private study collection of photographic objects, literature, ephemera. From a conservators technical point of view.
Retailer
Name
Yeates & Son
notes
Samuel Yeates (1762-1834) apprenticed to Seacombe Mason, and the two families intermarried over several generations. Samuel was the first in the family to be described as an 'optician', which meant instrument maker; and circa 1790 established the shop on Grafton Street, on the corner of Nassau Street, which the Yeates company occupied for over 100 years. Samuel's second son, George Yeates (1796-1882) designed improved surveying instruments such as a clinometer, level, rangefinder, and theodolite; and George's seventh child Stephen ran the business after 1865. Samuel's third son Andrew (1800-1876) worked with Edward Troughton in the early 1820s, and in 1833 repaired instruments at the Greenwich Observatory under Troughton's supervision. He wrote 'On the notches, Y's or bearings for the pivots of transit instruments' MNRAS 25 (1865) 214-215. Andrew ran an instrument business in London from 1837 to 1873, and married the daughter of Cornelius Varley (Andrew Yeates FRAS, obituary MNRAS 37 (1877) (159-160). The Yeates family manufactured a very large variety of scientific instruments, and circa 1880 their catalogs listed over 2,000 items, including telescopes such as a 'walking stick telescope'. Many items were noted as 'improved' by Yeates. Most of the instruments were probably made by Yeates; although a Grubb equatorial telescope was also sold. Yeates was by appointment the instrument maker for Trinity College.
source: Abrahams, Peter, The Telescope in Ireland: Obscure makers & marks. Irish telescope makers and Irish signatures on telescopes., 1990, pp72-73.
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