Maurice Loewy
Photographie Lunaire: Albategnius – Hipparque – Hyginus

ArtistFrench, born Austria, 1833–1907
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Photographie Lunaire: Albategnius – Hipparque – Hyginus
  • from Atlas Photographique de la Lune (Photographic Atlas of the Moon)
Date1894, printed 1894–1900
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 22 3/4 × 18 7/8 in. (57.8 × 47.9 cm)
Sheet: 30 1/4 × 23 5/8 in. (76.8 × 60 cm)
Tissue Overlay: 25 3/8 × 20 in. (64.5 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael Zilkha in honor of Al Reinert
Object number2017.441.A,.B
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionMaurice
Loewy and Pierre Henri Puiseux’s Atlas
Photographique de la Lune (Photographic Atlas of the Moon)
is among the
19th century’s most ambitious photographic projects. Loewy and Puiseux’s atlas
took some 14 years of observation and more than 6,000 negatives to complete.
The 70 photogravure plates are impressive for their scale and beauty, and they
remained the most detailed mapping of the moon until the second half of the
20th century.

Provenance[Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, Pennsylvania]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition History"Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 20–September 2, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, recto, above image: Grand Equatorial Coudé // PHOTOGRAPHIE LUNAIRE // ATLBATEGNIUS _ HIPPARQUE _ HYGINUS // Pl 4 // Observatoire de Paris
Printed in black, recto, below image: 1894 Mars 14 7h 6 (t.m. Paris) // Agrandissement 15 fois // Diametre Lunaire 2m 58 // PAR M. M. LŒWY ET PUISEUX // Héliog & Imp Fillon & Heuse

Printed in black, recto, on overlay tissue: ATLBATEGNIUS _ HIPPARQUE _ HYGINUS // PL. IV // [the names of the various craters are printed inside the crater outlines scattered on the overlay tissue]

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