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Image:
6.50" x 8.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
12.00" x 13.50"
Section Of The Constellation Cygnus Framed Print
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
$104.00
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Section Of The Constellation Cygnus framed print by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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
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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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