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The Moon Painted by Itself
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Image from J. J. Grandville's satirical and visionary masterpiece Un Autre Monde (Another World), published in 1844. The extravagant subtitle appended to the main title gives some idea of the work's scope and ambition: "Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Vacations, Caprices, Cosmogonies, Reveries, Whimsies, Phantasmagorias, Apotheoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metamorphoses, Metempsychoses, and Other Things." A favourite of Walter Benjamin's among others. (Image source: Boston Public Library, via Internet Archive)
- Selenographic Phases of the Moon Andreas Cellarius
- Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874) Anonymous
- Lunar Vision: Pumpkins used as Dwellings Filippo Morghen
- Walking Couple by Moonlight Gesina ter Borch
- The Path to the Moon W. T. Horton
- Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth as Seen from the Moon James Nasmyth
- Normal Lunar Crater James Nasmyth
- Photograph of the Moon John Herschel