Gezicht op El Teide op Tenerife

Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1856

  • Artwork typephotograph, page
  • Object numberRP-F-2001-7-1380-4
  • Dimensionsheight 118 mm x width 108 mm
  • Physical characteristicsalbuminedruk

Identification

  • Title(s)

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

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-F-2001-7-1380-4

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • number: ‘Plate 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.’

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    1856

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    albuminedruk

  • Dimensions

    height 118 mm x width 108 mm

Explanatory note

  • Foto in het katern achterin.

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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

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

  • Acquisition

    purchase 2001

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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