Twelve Photographs of the Moon
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Twelve Photographs of the Moon
- Artist: Austin Augustus Turner (American, ca. 1813–1866)
- Artist: After Warren de la Rue (British, Guernsey Island 1815–1889 London)
- Publisher: D. Appleton & Co. (New York, NY)
- Date: 1863
- Medium: Albumen silver prints
- Dimensions: Image: 2 1/2 × 2 1/16 in. (6.3 × 5.2 cm), each
Mount: 4 1/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.3 × 6.3 cm), each - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Susan and Thomas Dunn Gift and funds from various donors, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.753.1–.14
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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