Trademark Fine Art 'Lunar Cartography, 1805-06' Canvas Art by John Russell

• Artist: John Russell
• Subject: Map
• Style: Industrial
• Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art

This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a topographical view of the moon on a black background.

Prominent Colors: Grey, Black, White

John Russell was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. Russell was interested in astronomy and made, with the assistance of his daughter, a lunar map, which he engraved on two plates, forming a globe showing the visible surface of the moon--it took 20 years to finish. He also invented an apparatus for exhibiting the phenomena of the moon, which he called Selenographia. Russell's large and highly detailed pastel drawing of "The Face of the Moon" was "the most faithful early representation of the lunar sphere".

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