Photographie Lunaire Capuanus - Bouillaud - Gassendi, 1896

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Medium

photogravure

Dimensions

image: 57.79 x 47.94 cm (22 3/4 x 18 7/8 in.)

sheet: 79.53 x 60.01 cm (31 5/16 x 23 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.133.143

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

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Inscription

Printed, across top: PL. VIII / PHOTOGRAPHIE LUNAIRE / CAPUANUS - BOUILLAUD - GASSENDI / Grand Equatorial Coudé Observatoire de Paris; across bottom on sheet: 1896 23 Avril 8h3 t.m. Paris Agrandissement 14.0 fois Diamètre Lunaire 2m44 / PAR M.M. LOEWY ET PUISEUX / Héliog. & Imp. Fillon & Heuse; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: MLP0006

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary