Lunar observations

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Seashore by Moonlight (between 1660 and 1664) by Egbert van der Poel.

The moon in art. A wide-ranging theme so there’ll be more tomorrow.

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich.

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Cornfield in Moonlight (c. 1830) by Samuel Palmer.

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Moonlit Seascape With Shipwreck (1863) by Ivan Aivazovsky.

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In Peril (1879) by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

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Full Moon over Kilauea (1887) by Jules Tavernier.

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Moonrise (1889) by Frederic Edwin Church.

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Summer Evening at Skagen Beach (1899) by Peder Severin Krøyer.

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Lunation: Art on the Moon
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