James Nasmyth
Back of Hand
About this artwork
This is the photographer's own hand. The picture was included in a book that Nasmyth published, with James Carpenter, called The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. He was hoping to demonstrate that the surface of the moon had formed as its molten body shrank and gradually cooled and shrivelled, just the way human skin wrinkles with age.
Updated before 2020
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artist:James Nasmyth (1808 - 1890) Scottish
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title:Back of Hand
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date created:1874
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materials:Woodburytype
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measurements:11.50 x 8.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985
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accession number:PGP R 830.1
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James Nasmyth
James Nasmyth
James Nasmyth was one of the leading engineers of the nineteenth century, and his principal inventions were the steam hammer and the pile driver which changed the landscape of the industrial world. He was the son of the landscape painter, Alexander Nasmyth, who taught him drawing. He was an...
