A FINE LACQUERED BRASS SUNDIAL BY HENRY SHUTTLEWORTH, LONDON, CIRCA 1770. engraved to a latitude

A FINE LACQUERED BRASS SUNDIAL BY HENRY SHUTTLEWORTH, LONDON, CIRCA 1770. engraved to a latitude of 55º (Newcastle or Londonderry) with finely worked sixteen-point compass rose, outer minute scale, perspective radiused Roman hour numerals recording IIIIam to VIIIpm each separated by a decorative Fleur-de-Lys motif, signed at South Shuttleworth London, gnomen, three threaded pad feet, (retaining much original lacquered finish and black-waxed filling), 10in (25.5cm.) high, Lit: Turner, A: Early Scientific Instruments Europe 1400-1800, Sotheby's 1987, p.176, this dial illustrated fig. 182. Henry Raines Shuttleworth (w,1760-1797) was apprenticed to the famous London Maker John Cuff in 1746. Made a Freeman of the Spectacle Makers Company 1756 he subsequently established his own Mathematical Shop near the West end of St. Paul`s in Ludgate Street. Succeeded by his son, (also Henry, apprenticed to his father 1778) in Ludgate Street 1797-1811. His signature denotes some of the finest London mathematical Instruments of the Period.