Title(s)

Diagram of lunar crates forming a series ranging from 1 3/4 miles to 78 miles diameter, all containing central cones

Object type

• print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-489-8

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate VII’
• name: ‘Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street Piccadilly’

Artist

• after drawing by: James Nasmyth (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Day & Son Vincent Brooks (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Murray (mentioned on object)

Place

after drawing by: United Kingdom
print maker: United Kingdom
publisher: London

Dating

1873

Material

• paper

Technique

lithography

Measurements

height 212 mm × width 151 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)