Gezicht op El Teide op Tenerife

• Tenerife Experiment of 1856 (title on object)
• Gezicht op El Teide op Tenerife

RP-F-2001-7-1380-4

• inscription: ‘Portion of a Photograph (magnified 4.2 diameters), representing a mountain side four miles distant (the exterior Northern wall of the Great Crater), and the nearer country, from a Camera, stationed within a few feet of the level of the sea. This Photograph is unserted for differential purposes only; having been produced with the same Camera, Chemicals & Manipulation as the three preceeding ones, but in the denser atmosphere near the sea-level instead of the rarified air of the Mountain top. See p.p 513,514.’
• number: ‘Plate 4.’

• fotograaf: Charles Piazzi Smyth, Tenerife
• printer: Spencer, J.A. (possibly)

1856

albuminedruk

height 118 mm x width 108 mm

Foto in het katern achterin.

Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Public domain

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200654572