Twelve Photographs of the Moon

Warren de la Rue|D. Appleton & Co.|Austin Augustus Turner

1863 · Albumen silver prints · Photographs

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.

Artist

Warren de la Rue|D. Appleton & Co.|Austin Augustus Turner

Date

1863

Medium

Albumen silver prints

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Susan and Thomas Dunn Gift and funds from various donors, 2014