Gezicht op de Montaña de Guajara op Tenerife

Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1856

  • Artwork typephotograph, page
  • Object numberRP-F-2001-7-1380-1
  • Dimensionsheight 100 mm x width 215 mm
  • Physical characteristicsalbuminedruk

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Tenerife Experiment of 1856 (title on object)
    • Gezicht op de Montaña de Guajara op Tenerife

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-F-2001-7-1380-1

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • inscription: ‘Portion of a Photograph (magnified 4.3 diameters), representing a mountain side (Mount Guajara, and the interior Southern wall of the Great Crater), four miles distant from the Camera, stationed at the height of 10,700 feet above the level of the sea. (The apparently low, flat ground in the lower left hand corner, is part of the elevated Crater floor, at a height of 7,000 feet above the sea, and 3,500 above the ordinary level of the N. East summer clouds). See p.p 513,514.’
    • number: ‘Plate 1.’

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 100 mm x width 215 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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