Album of John Russell’s lunar drawings, 1764-1805

A selection of delicate pencil drawings from an album containing 180 pages of mounted sketches of the moon by John Russell, made between 1764 and 1805. Many are annotated with times and dates, while some have inscriptions in shorthand.

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