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PIETRO PATRONI, 1719
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AN EARLY ITALIAN BINOCULAR TELESCOPE
PIETRO PATRONI, 1719
signed PETRUS PATRONUS SAC:CAES ET CAT. MAIES. OPTICUS, MEDLANI, 1719, the outer rectangular body tube covered in embossed black leather, the green vellum draw-tube gilt tooled with signature in gilt, silver mounts, hinged covers for wooden eyeholes painted VISIO PERFECTA, the green vellum optical tubes with ivory and wooden mounts for lenses, screw mechanism with dial I-XII, side shutters for objectives, the wooden panel with decorative painting and AGIT IN PVNCTO, the green vellum optical tubes with wooden fittings for lenses signed Pietro Patroni in Milano, screw dial with key I-IIII; the tripod stand in wood with steel feet and screw, painted throughout with oriental scenery and floral decorations, secured to tube via fitting with double hinge supporting felt-lined bracket with two hooks
63in. (160cm.) high
PIETRO PATRONI, 1719
signed PETRUS PATRONUS SAC:CAES ET CAT. MAIES. OPTICUS, MEDLANI, 1719, the outer rectangular body tube covered in embossed black leather, the green vellum draw-tube gilt tooled with signature in gilt, silver mounts, hinged covers for wooden eyeholes painted VISIO PERFECTA, the green vellum optical tubes with ivory and wooden mounts for lenses, screw mechanism with dial I-XII, side shutters for objectives, the wooden panel with decorative painting and AGIT IN PVNCTO, the green vellum optical tubes with wooden fittings for lenses signed Pietro Patroni in Milano, screw dial with key I-IIII; the tripod stand in wood with steel feet and screw, painted throughout with oriental scenery and floral decorations, secured to tube via fitting with double hinge supporting felt-lined bracket with two hooks
63in. (160cm.) high
Provenance
Possibly Comte Donato Silva de Biandrate.
Collection of Alfred Nachet (1831-1908), no. 90.
with Librairie Alain Brieux, 1971.
Collection of Pierre Marly.
Collection of Alfred Nachet (1831-1908), no. 90.
with Librairie Alain Brieux, 1971.
Collection of Pierre Marly.
Literature
Daumas, M. Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers (London, 1972) pp. 43, 246-247
Lualdi, A. 'Pietro Patroni, un ottico della Milano post-Spagnola', Nuncius X 2 (1995) pp. 671-689
Lualdi, A. 'Pietro Patroni, an 18th-centur Milanese Optician', Bulletin of the Scientific Insrument Society No. 47 (1995), pp. 12-13
Nachet, A. Instruments Scientifiques et Livres Anciens (Paris, 1929) p.39, pl.XIII
Lualdi, A. 'Pietro Patroni, un ottico della Milano post-Spagnola', Nuncius X 2 (1995) pp. 671-689
Lualdi, A. 'Pietro Patroni, an 18th-centur Milanese Optician', Bulletin of the Scientific Insrument Society No. 47 (1995), pp. 12-13
Nachet, A. Instruments Scientifiques et Livres Anciens (Paris, 1929) p.39, pl.XIII
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