Museum Exhibition

By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Rutherfurd, Lewis M.

"Full Moon"

1864

stereoscopic albumen silver print

image (each): 7.5 × 7.3 cm (2 15/16 × 2 7/8 in.) sheet: 7.5 × 14.6 cm (2 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.) mount: 8.5 × 17.5 cm (3 3/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

Featured works

Soule, John

1863

stereoscopic albumen silver print

image (each): 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.) sheet: 7.6 × 15.3 cm (3 × 6 in.) mount: 8.2 × 17.3 cm (3 1/4 × 6 13/16 in.)

Draper, Henry

1860

stereoscopic albumen silver print

image (each): 7.9 × 7.4 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 7.9 × 14.8 cm (3 1/8 × 5 13/16 in.) mount: 8.8 × 17.8 cm (3 7/16 × 7 in.)

Bates, Joseph L.

1860

stereoscopic albumen silver print

image (each): 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.) sheet: 7.6 × 15.2 cm (3 × 6 in.) mount: 8 × 17 cm (3 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.)

Rutherfurd, Lewis M.

1860

stereoscopic albumen silver print

image (each): 7.9 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 7.9 × 15 cm (3 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.) mount: 8.8 × 17.6 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

July 20, 1969

chromogenic print

image: 18.2 × 18.2 cm (7 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.) sheet: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

36 documented works in this exhibition