"Full Moon"
Draper, Henry · American
1860
- Medium
- stereoscopic albumen silver print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Period
- 1851 to 1875
- Image size
- 11084 × 5487px
Description
This is a stereoscopic card featuring two identical images of the full moon, showcasing its craters and surface texture in detail. The card is on a beige background with inscriptions mentioning the photographer, Prof. H. Draper, and the publisher, C. Bierstadt, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It notes that the negatives were taken with a silvered glass telescope, capturing the selenographic features of the moon.
Rights & Source
Open access image from the National Gallery of Art, released under its open access program. Metadata via the NGA Open Data Program (CC0).