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Wheel barometer
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      Santino Donegani
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      late 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 955 mm, width 270 mm
    • Inventory:
      1140
    • Wheel barometer (Inv. 1140)

Wheel barometer mounted on a green-varnished wooden base with gilt tooling. The barometric scale is divided into Paris inches. Above the dial is inserted an alcohol thermometer with a Réaumur scale. Made by Santino Donegani, about whom we have no information.