#nasmyth

[artschoolglasses]

Landscape, Patrick Nasmyth, 1807

[lindahall]

James Nasmyth – Scientist of the Day

James Hall Nasmyth, a Scottish engineer and inventor, was born Aug. 19, 1808.

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[sollertias]

Eleanor and Margaret Ross by Alexander Nasmyth, c. 1785 (details)

[retrofutureground]

James Nasmyth, one of 15 assorted photographs of Nasmyth's crater models illuminated at a low angle illustrating unknown lunar craters and originally mounted in Nasmyth's own album. Date Made: 1850-1871.

[retrofutureground]

One of 15 assorted photographs of James Nasmyth’s crater models illuminated at a low angle showing Vesuvius and neighbourhood of Naples and originally mounted in Nasmyth’s own album.  Illustrated in the book, ‘The Moon’ by Nasmyth & Carpenter (London, 1874), plate VI right.

[nicksyris]

"The Angler's Nook" - 1825 

Patrick Nasmyth,  (7 January 1787 – 17 August 1831), Scottish

A Picturesque (from an Italian term pittoresco “in the manner of a painter”). This pictorial genre appeared already in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th. Along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. Picturesque arose as a mediator between the opposed ideals of beauty and the sublime, showing the possibilities that existed in between these two rationally idealized states.

[magictransistor]

James Hall Nasmyth & James Carpenter, 'The Moon: Considered as a Planet' (Three photographic illustrations of plaster models that Nasmyth and Carpenter fabricated based upon their observations of the lunar satellite), 1874.