Carte photographique de la lune, planche X.A (Photographic Chart of the Moon, plate X.A)
October 7, 1906, printed 1914
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 31.1 × 25.5 cm (12 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.) plate: 39 × 29.5 cm (15 3/8 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 48.9 × 40 cm (19 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2018.22.1.34
About the Artist
Charles le Morvan
Charles Le Morvan (1865–1932), born Charles Marie Le Morvan in Pleubian, Brittany, emerged as a pivotal figure in the dawn of astronomical photography during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Joining the Paris Observatory staff in 1890, he worked as an assistant to astronomers Maurice Loewy and Pierre Puiseux, contributing essential photographic observations and glass plate prepar...