Title(s)

Terrestrial and lunar volcanic areas compared

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-489-7

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate VI.’
• inscription: ‘Portion of the Moons surface. Vesuvius and neighbourhood of Napels.’
• inscription: ‘Scale of miles.’
• name: ‘Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street Piccadilly.’

Description

Links een deel van het oppervlak rond de krater Theophilus, rechts de Vesuvius en de omgeving van Napels van boven gezien.

Artist

• James Nasmyth (mentioned on object)
• anonymous
• printer: Day & Son Vincent Brooks (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Murray (mentioned on object)

Place

United Kingdom
United Kingdom
printer: United Kingdom
publisher: London

Dating

c. 1870 - in or before 1873

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 215 mm × width 279 mm

What

• surface of the moon
• geological phenomena
• volcano

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)