"Full Moon", 1860

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Medium

stereoscopic albumen print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.5

Artists / Makers

Henry Draper (artist) American, 1837 - 1882

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

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.

Provenance

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

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.