Photographe Lunaire, Delambre Manilius Bessel Plate XXII from "Atlas Photographique de la Lune" Portfolio

Object Name
Date
1903
Medium
photogravure
Credit Line
Malcolmson Collection. Gift of Harry and Ann Malcolmson in partnership with a private donor, 2014
Object Number
2014/594.3
Location
Not currently on display but Available for viewing on Wednesdays from 1-4:30 in the Prints and Drawings Study Centre

Dimensions

Image: 57.7 × 47.5 cm (22 11/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 79.6 × 59.8 cm (31 5/16 × 23 9/16 in.)

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Markings
imprinted on recto, top: Photographe Lunaire/ Delambre_Manilius_Bessel PL. XXIl; tl: Grande Equitorial Coude; tr: Observatoire de Paris; bl: 1894 19 Septembre 14h1 t.m. Paris; centre: Agrandissement 12.08 fois; br: Diametre Lunaire 2m03/ Par M.M. Loewry et Puiseux/ Heliog. & imp. Fillon & Heuse

Subjects

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