Photographie Lunaire Blancanus - Tycho - Schiller, 1899

Not on View

Medium

photogravure

Dimensions

image: 56.99 x 46.51 cm (22 7/16 x 18 5/16 in.)

sheet: 79.85 x 60.17 cm (31 7/16 x 23 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.133.145

Artists / Makers

Loewy et Puiseux (artist) French

Maurice Loewy (artist) French, born Czech Republic, 1833 - 1907

Pierre Henri Puiseux (artist) French, 1855 - 1928

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

Printed, across top on sheet: PL. XLIV / PHOTOGRAPHIE LUNAIRE / BLANCANUS - TYCHO - SCHILLER / Grand Equatorial Coudé Observatoire de Paris; across bottom on sheet: 1899 Novembre 14 9h5' t.m. Paris Agrandissement 14,0 fois Diamètre Lunaire 2m40 / PAR M.M. LOEWY ET PUISEUX / Héliog. & Imp. L. Schutzenberger Paris.; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 800 f; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: MLP0005

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

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