Crater of Vesuvius
A Woodburytype photograph entitled 'Crater of Vesuvius', taken by James Nasmyth, in 1864. This is Plate I from a book, published in 1874, entitled 'The Moon, Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite' by Nasmyth and James Carpenter, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The book was based on their observations of the moon through drawings, photographs and models.