Live Auction 21043The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison - British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship
JOSEPH FINNEY, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1770
Lot 26

JOSEPH FINNEY, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1770

A GEORGE III STICK BAROMETER

Closed25 May 2022

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GBP 10,000–15,000

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JOSEPH FINNEY, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1770
A GEORGE III STICK BAROMETER
The case with carved scroll pediment, glazed hinged square frame for register plates, encased tube and lidded box at base for open cistern, (originally open cistern), the silvered plates, '28-31', with manually adjusted brass pointer extending on right to engraved table enabling measurements to 1⁄100th inch, signed on the plates 'Jos. Finney in Liverpool'
Mahogany and brass
44 3⁄4 in. (113.7 cm.) high; 10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide; 3 in. (7.6 cm.) deep

Acquired from Anthony Woodburn, Lewes, June 2001.

Specialist note


Sir Nicholas Goodison noted: Two eighteenth-century watch and clock makers of this name are recorded at Liverpool - Joseph Finney (1), 1734-61, d.1772, the most likely maker of this barometer, and Joseph Finney (2), 1770-96. The cistern was originally open and survives intact, but at present there is an ordinary portable cistern in its place.

An angle barometer by Finney with an architectural case and an open cistern is in the Science Museum collection (Inv. no. 1927-1911; N. Goodison, English Barometers, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 69, pl. 18).