Lunar animals and other objects (LOC)

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and copied from sketches in the Edinburgh Journal of Science.

 

[1835]

 

1 print : lithograph ; 36.8 x 53.6 cm (sheet)

 

Notes:

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon.

Title from item.

Publication date based on copyright statement on item. DLC

Notation on recto: Deposited August 29, 1835 at the Clerks Of. South Dist. of New York. DLC

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Great Moon Hoax.

Extraterrestrial life--1830-1850.

Supernatural beings--1830-1850.

Fantasy--1830-1840.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2003656552

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02667

 

Call Number: PGA - Day (B.)--Lunar animals ...

 

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