The Milky Way, c. 1900

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 29 × 23.2 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

sheet: 29.7 × 23.5 cm (11 11/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in honor of Dr. Charles T. and Alma A. Isaacs

Accession Number

2018.23.38

Artists / Makers

Maximilian Wolf (artist) German, 1863 - 1932

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower right of mat in graphite: Q1498✓; on verso, by artist, top center in blue pencil: Voie lactée / Nv 4; across center in blue pencil: Persee Cepeus Cygnus; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 24

Provenance

(D. Canguilhem, Paris); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 2001; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles