Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Little Winchester Street

Little Winchester Street

distiller and undertaker are the only well-off and successful people in the neighbourhood

he is addressed by a foppishly dressed Frenchman

Twelve figures lettered a-m

He has his left foot on the broken plate of reform and is just about to dash to the ground the engraved decanter of dissolution

Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Little Winchester StreetPlate 14 from the paper 'Observations for ascertaining the length of the Pendulum at Madras in the East Indies, latitude 13 4' 9', 1N. with the conclusions drawn from the same', by John Goldingham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 127 170. The painting shows three figures, one British and two Indian, taking an observation using a telescope and pendulum of the type used and described by Captain Henry Kater.