Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Plato, plate XIV, from James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (London: John Murray, 1874).
1874
James Nasmyth
Image: 15.4 x 17.2 cm (6 1/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 22 x 28 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.)
Photograph, Woodburytype
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2011.1757
Provenance/Ownership History: 2010, acquired from an antiquarian book dealer in Cumberland, Maryland by Arlette and Gus Kayafas, Boston; 2011, gift of Arlette and Gus Kayafas to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011)
Gift of Arlette and Gus Kayafas