Title(s)

Arzachael, Ptolemy, and the Railway

Object type

• print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-489-14

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate XIII.’
• inscription: ‘Scale.’
• name: ‘London John Murray, Albemarle Street 1873.’

Artist

• photographer: James Nasmyth (mentioned on object)
• print maker: J.H. & F.C. McQueen (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Murray (mentioned on object)

Place

photographer: United Kingdom
print maker: United Kingdom
publisher: London

Dating

1873

Material

• paper

Technique

lithography

Measurements

height 182 mm × width 131 mm

What

• surface of the moon

Where

• Moon

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

Is part of

• The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite (RP-F-2001-7-489)