Title: The Moon
Object type: Photograph
Date: 1857–60
Artist:  John Adams Whipple 
Artist bio: American, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1822–1891 Grafton, Massachusetts
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions: Plate: 8 7/16 × 6 5/16 in. (21.4 × 16 cm)
Sheet (approx.): 8 5/16 × 6 1/4 in. (21.1 × 15.8 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Moon, term: Astronomy