Carte photographique et systématique de la lune (Photographic and Systematic Chart of the Moon)
1902–1907, published 1926
Medium
6 photogravures and text booklet
Dimensions
image: 19.5 × 14.7 cm (7 11/16 × 5 13/16 in.) plate: 25.5 × 20.8 cm (10 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.) sheet: 38 × 27.8 cm (14 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.) image (tissue paper): 19.9 × 20 cm (7 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet (tissue paper): 30 × 24 cm (11 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.) text booklet: 31.3 × 24 cm (12 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2019.177.1
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...