Title(s)

Teneriffe, an astronomer's experiment (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-352

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘M. Ogle & Son booksellers & stationery 1, Royal Exchange Sqe. Glasgow.’

Artist

• writer (clerical worker): Charles Piazzi Smyth (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Lovell Augustus Reeve (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1886

Material

• paper
• photographic support
• cardboard
• linen (material)

Technique

printing / albumen print

Measurements

height 193 mm × width 130 mm × thickness 42 mm

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

Parts

• Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 feet high, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain (RP-F-2001-7-352-1)
• Volcanic "blowing cone" in Orotava, on the Northern coast of Teneriffe (RP-F-2001-7-352-2)
• Peak of Teneriffe from Orotava on the Northern coast (RP-F-2001-7-352-3)
• Tent scene on mount Guajara, 8903 feet high (RP-F-2001-7-352-4)
• Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance (RP-F-2001-7-352-5)
• Cliff and floor of the great crater, 8 miles in diameter and 7000 feet above the sea, under mount Guajara (RP-F-2001-7-352-6)
• Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara (RP-F-2001-7-352-7)
• Trachyte block on Guajara (RP-F-2001-7-352-8)
• Masses of lava slag at Alta Vista (RP-F-2001-7-352-9)
• Specimen of the malpays of black lava near Alta Vista (RP-F-2001-7-352-10)
• Close view of Alta Vista observing station from the East, altitude 10,702 feet (RP-F-2001-7-352-11)
• Alta Vista observatory, from the Northern lava ridge (RP-F-2001-7-352-12)
• Entrance to the ice cavern in the Malpays on the peak of Teneriffe, at the height of 11,040 feet (RP-F-2001-7-352-13)
• Euphorbia canariensis on the sea-coast of Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-14)
• Young dragon trees and date palm in a cactus garden near Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-15)
• Young dragon trees (dracaena draco) near Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-16)
• Dragon tree walk at a palazzo near Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-17)
• Cochinael gatherers at Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-18)
• The "great dragon tree" at the villa de Orotava (RP-F-2001-7-352-19)
• Trunk of the great dragon tree (RP-F-2001-7-352-20)

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