"Full Moon"

1860

Henry Draper

Associated Names
Henry Draper

Artist, American, 1837 - 1882

This is a stereoscopic card featuring two identical images of the full moon, showcasing its craters and surface texture in detail. The card is on a beige background with inscriptions mentioning the photographer, Prof. H. Draper, and the publisher, C. Bierstadt, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It notes that the negatives were taken with a silvered glass telescope, capturing the selenographic features of the moon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 7.9 × 7.4 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 7.9 × 14.8 cm (3 1/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
    mount: 8.8 × 17.8 cm (3 7/16 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.5

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

lower left and right in negative: FULL MOON. / FROM NEGATIVES TAKEN BY PROF. H. DRAPER, / WITH HIS SILVERED GLASS TELESCOPE. / PUBLISHED BY C. BIERSTADT, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.; along left edge of mount printed in black ink: C. Bierstadt, Publisher / Niagara Falls, N.Y.; along right edge: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, / Liverpool, New York, -Chicago, -Toronto, -Ottawa, Kas.-El Paso, Tex.

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