Twelve Photographs of the Moon
Austin Augustus Turner American
After Warren de la Rue British
Publisher D. Appleton & Co. American
Not on view
In addition to garnering the attention of the scientific community, De La Rue’s astronomical pictures reached a wider public. Turner, a studio photographer in New York, rephotographed De La Rue’s views of the moon’s phases, selling the pirated images as a boxed set of twelve cartes de visite.
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