"View of the Moon"

1860

Lewis M. Rutherfurd

Artist, American, 1816 - 1892

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 7.9 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 7.9 × 15 cm (3 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
    mount: 8.8 × 17.6 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.21.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVES BY / L. M. RUTHERFURD.; along right edge: PUBLISHED ONLY BY / P. F. WEIL, NEW YORK.; bottom right: VIEW OF THE MOON.; on verso, upper right printed in black ink on white label: WM. SENTER / Watches / CLOCKS JEWELRY / & SPECTACLES. / 54 EXCHANGE ST. / PORTLAND, M[E]

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