Opening: $180 Hammer Price: $180 SOLD Skylight Gallery 24 March 2007

Simulated image of Plato crater, vintage woodburytype from James Carpenter & James Nasmyth, "The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite", ca. 1874. On sheet titled "Plate XIV. / Plato/ J. Nasmyth / Brooks, Day & Son." Print size 5 x 5.75 inches (13x15 cm).   ( Inventory# fb54c )

In their preface, Carpenter and Nasmyth discussed the creation of lunar photographs from models:
"...In order to present these illustrations with as near an approach as possible to the absolute integrity of the original objects, the idea occurred to us that by translating the drawing into models which, when placed in the sun's rays, would faithfully reproduce the lunar effects of light and shadow, and then photographing the models so treated, we should produce most faithful representations of the original..."

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