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History Beach Towel featuring the photograph Section Of The Constellation Cygnus by Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Section Of The Constellation Cygnus Beach Towel

Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

$40.00

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Our luxuriously soft beach towels are made from brushed microfiber with a 100% cotton back for extra absorption.   The top of the towel has the image printed on it, and the back is white cotton.   Our beach towels are available in two different sizes: beach towel (32" x 64") and beach sheet (37" x 74").

Don't let the fancy name confuse you... a beach sheet is just a large beach towel.

Design Details

Section of the Constellation Cygnus. August 13, 1885. Taken by Paul Henry (French, 1848-1905) and his brother Prosper Henry (1849-1903). Albumen... more

Care Instructions

Machine wash cold and tumble dry with low heat.

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Artist's Description

Section of the Constellation Cygnus. August 13, 1885. Taken by Paul Henry (French, 1848-1905) and his brother Prosper Henry (1849-1903). Albumen silver print from glass negative. Astronomers at the Paris Observatory, the brothers Paul and Prosper Henry constructed a photographic telescope to produce an exact, objective record of the sky. That photography might serve astronomy was evident from the very beginning. Indeed, before the Henry brothers' first use of the medium, other photographers had successfully charted lunar geology, solar and lunar eclipses, the transit of Venus, sunspots, the surface of Mars, the rings of Saturn, and the relative position of the brightest stars. No one, however, had yet recorded stars so distant and faint that they were not visible to the eye. This the Henry brothers achieved in 1885 by constructing a still more powerful photographic telescope, with an extraordinarily precise mechanism for tracking the stars across the night sky during exposures as long...

 

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