Title(s)

Gezicht op de Dead Giant in Tuolumne Grove, Californië
The Dead Giant (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-902-19

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘(31 feet in diameter)’

Artist

• photographer: George Fiske (mentioned on object)
• Heliotype Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

photographer: Tuolumne Grove
Boston (Massachusetts)

Dating

c. 1881 - in or before 1886

Material

• paper

Technique

printing block

Measurements

height 99 mm × width 161 mm

What

• trees
• forest, wood

Where

• Tuolumne Grove

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

Is part of

• In the heart of the Sierras : the Yo Semite Valley, both historical and desciptive : and scenes by the way : big tree groves : the high sierra, with its magnificent scenery (...) (etc.) / by J.M. Hutchings. (RP-F-2001-7-902)