Naples and the Moon
SOLD March 2007 |
Simulated images of the moon and earth, vintage woodburytypes from James Carpenter & James Nasmyth, "The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite", ca. 1874. On sheet titled "Plate VI. / Terrestrial and Lunar Volcanic Areas Compared / Portion of the Moon's Surface / Vesuvius and Neighborhood of Naples / J. Nasmyth / Brooks, Day & Son." Print size 5 x 3.5 inches (13x9 cm).
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..."
