Lawrence Alma-Tadema, artist and Royal Academician Size:Large: 7 x 5in Plate 3 (right half detail)

Plate 3 (right half detail) from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta (London

William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory

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the 112 mile line running from Curzon Street station in Birmingham to Euston station in London

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, artist and Royal Academician Size:Large: 7 x 5in Plate 3 (right half detail)Lawrence Alma Tadema, artist and Royal Academician, 1881. Dutch born painter Alma Tadema (1836 1912) moved to London in 1870. He had exhibited two paintings at the Royal Academy the previous year, which had been very well received. He became a Royal Academician in 1879, and by the 1880s he was one of the most popular and famous artists in Britain, with clients including members of the British and Russian royal families. He specialised in idyllic