Group of lunar mountains - ideal lunar landscape / J. Nasmyth ; (Woodbury). – Antique Wall Art
![Group of lunar mountains - ideal lunar landscape / J. Nasmyth ; (Woodbury)., [1874] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/241dbe95d6ac-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Group of lunar mountains - ideal lunar landscape / J. Nasmyth ; (Woodbury).
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Rather than a view through a telescope, this plate shows a constructed scene. James Nasmyth, the Scottish engineer best known for the steam hammer, built plaster landscapes of craters and peaks and photographed them under raking light to suggest the lunar surface. The image appeared as Plate XXIII in *The Moon*, which Nasmyth wrote with James Carpenter, in the 1874 second edition published in London by John Murray. The woodburytype process reproduces continuous tone without a halftone screen, so the sunlit ridges and shadowed crater floors keep a softness that suited a book on lunar scenery.
| Created / published | [1874] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : woodburytype. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1870-1880.Woodburytypes 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite / By James Nasmyth, C.E. and James Carpenter, F.R.A.S [...]. 2nd. ed. London : J. Murray, 1874, Plate XXIII. |
| Subjects | Moon--1870-1880. Mountains--1870-1880. Craters--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,649 × 2,713 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222911 |
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