Title(s)

The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-489

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘A. Robinson. Jersey. 20-8-18.’
• inscription: ‘St. Leonard. 1874.’
• name: ‘John. St. Peyton’

Artist

• James Nasmyth (mentioned on object)
• James Carpenter (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Murray (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1874

Material

• linen (material)
• cardboard
• paper
• photographic support
• printing ink

Technique

printing / lithography / Woodburytype / collotype / color lithography

Measurements

height 287 mm × width 227 mm × thickness 30 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Gassendi (RP-F-2001-7-489-1)
• Crater of Vesuvius. 1865. (RP-F-2001-7-489-2)
• Back of Hand & Shrivelled Apple. To illustrate the origin of certain mountain ranges by shrinkage of the globe (RP-F-2001-7-489-3)
• Full Moon (RP-F-2001-7-489-4)
• Picture map of the moon (RP-F-2001-7-489-5)
• Skeleton map of the moon (RP-F-2001-7-489-6)
• Terrestrial and lunar volcanic areas compared (RP-F-2001-7-489-7)
• Diagram of lunar crates forming a series ranging from 1 3/4 miles to 78 miles diameter, all containing central cones (RP-F-2001-7-489-8)
• Copernicus (RP-F-2001-7-489-9)
• The lunar Apennines, Archemedes, &c., &c. (RP-F-2001-7-489-10)
• Aristotle & Eudoxus (RP-F-2001-7-489-11)
• Triesnecker (RP-F-2001-7-489-12)
• Theophilus Cyrillus & Catharina (RP-F-2001-7-489-13)
• Arzachael, Ptolemy, and the Railway (RP-F-2001-7-489-14)
• Plato (RP-F-2001-7-489-15)
• Mercator & Campanus (RP-F-2001-7-489-16)
• Tycho. and its surroundings (RP-F-2001-7-489-17)
• Wargentin (RP-F-2001-7-489-18)
• Aristarchus & Herodotus (RP-F-2001-7-489-19)
• Glass globe cracked by internal pressure (RP-F-2001-7-489-20)
• Overlapping craters (RP-F-2001-7-489-21)
• Normal Lunar Crater (RP-F-2001-7-489-22)
• Aspect of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, as it would appear as seen from the Moon (RP-F-2001-7-489-23)
• Group of Lunar Mountains. Ideal Lunar Landscape (RP-F-2001-7-489-24)