Our Satellite. A Selenography According to The Present State of Science

1862

Dr. A. Le Vengeur d'Orsan

Artist, French, 1800 - 1899

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    folio with 8 albumen prints, 1 lithograph, and text

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.18 × 33.02 cm (17 × 13 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Randy Liebermann, Washington, DC; 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

upper left printed in black ink on cover of folio: PART 1.; upper right: AUGUST 1862.; CENTER: OUR / SATELLITE. / A. / SELENOGRAPHY ACCORDING / TO THE PRESENT STATE / OF SCIENCE. / BY DR. A. LE VENGEUR D'ORSAN; lower left: FLAMSTEED. / HALLEY. / BRADLEY. / BLISS. / MASKELYNE. / POND. / AIRY.; lower center: LONDON. / A.W. BENNETT, / 5. BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT.; lower right: HEVELIUS. / MAYER. / LAPLACE. / SCHROTER. / ROMER. / LOHRMANN. / MADLER.; by unknown hand, bottom left in black ink: Miscellaneous / astronomy / z.1; bottom left: 2B8; bottom left stamped in blue ink on applied sticker: 8

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