Title(s)

Gezicht op de Maan
Photographie directe de la lune. Le 10e jour de la lunaison (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-29-1

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘PL. IV’

Artist

• Lewis M. Rutherford (mentioned on object)
• Bernard & Cie (mentioned on object)

Dating

c. 1874 - in or before 1884

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 131 mm × width 120 mm

What

• waning moon, i.e. facing this way (

Where

• Moon

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Les terres du ciel (RP-F-2001-7-29)

• First light : photography & astronomy = First light : fotografie en astronomie, Saskia E. Asser, Huib Henrichs