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MOON PHOTOGRAPHY RUTHERFURD (LEWIS MORRIS) Three views of the Moon, all with some toning (4)
27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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MOON PHOTOGRAPHY
RUTHERFURD (LEWIS MORRIS) Three views of the Moon, albumen prints, mounted on card, blindstamped "Photo by L.M. Rutherfurd. Enl[arged] by A. Brothers", images 345 x 270mm., [c.1870]--ELLERY (ROBERT L.W.) The Moon, "from a photograph taken with the great Melbourne Reflector", albumen print, mounted on card, printed label on verso, image 278 x 218mm., [1873, printed later], all with some toning (4)
Footnotes
Rutherfurd (1816-1892), "the greatest lunar photographer of the age" (Proctor), took this celebrated series of images of the moon (full on, and lit from right and left) in his garden observatory before 1870. The image by Ellery, director of the Melbourne Observatory, was taken using the "Great Melbourne Telescope" on September 1, 1873.





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