Lewis Swift discovered IC 833 = Sw. VIII-66 on 25 Mar 1889 and reported "vF; S; R." Close to his position is an extremely faint galaxy (LEDA 158287), that is not listed in MCG or PGC. But 5' S of Swift's position is NGC 4813, which would have been nearby in Swift's wide field view, yet wasn't mentioned. Corwin lists both galaxies as candidates but assigns the PGC as more likely due to the positional match. Based on the DSS image, I feel this galaxy is probably too faint to have been seen by Swift -- or at least would have been called "eeF" or "eeeF" -- and his observation more likely applies to NGC 4813. See Corwin's notes.

400/500mm - 17.5" (5/17/90): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, small bright core, stellar nucleus. Located 11' NE of a mag 9.5 star.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb