- Subject
- Moon
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Russell
- Provenance
- Presented by the Radcliffe Trustees in 1934. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. The volume was given to the Radcliffe Observatory by the artist's grandson in 1873.
- Object type
- Album
- Dimensions
- Height: 477mm Width: 315mm Depth: 79mm
- Inventory No
- 11961
- Accession Number
- 1934-42
Description
Album bound in full leather, with decorative gold tooling. Flyleaf + 3 leaves + 192 leaves of pale brown paper (181 of them numbered) + 3 leaves + flyleaf; 180 of the numbered leaves carry mounted drawings and have tissue protectors.
The album contains 187 original drawings drawn directly from observations through the telescope, mounted on sheets of paper and bound in a large volume in gold-tooled leather.
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