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John Phillips
Study of the Moon
1853
Albumen print
The Royal Society
Product code: RS-9292
LL/58676
Study of the Moon taken through a telescope in 1853 and displayed at the 23rd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Hull, September. Phillips was the second person in Britain (after Warren de la Rue) to take lunar photographic images. He used the wet collodion process, two years after its invention in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustav le Gray. This specimen was collected from BAAS by Sir Edward Sabine. The image is mounted on a backing sheet which is inscribed: "Col.Sabine. Pres. Brit. Association. 15 July 1853 from Professor Phillips's Telescope (Partially cloudy) Print".
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