Title(s)

Man op een top van de Half Dome in Yosemite Valley, Californië
The Half, or South, Dome - Tis-sa-ack (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-902-40

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘George Anderson Standing on a Precipice of 5,000 Feet./ (See page 460.)’

Artist

• photographer: S.C. Walker (mentioned on object)
• Britton & Rey (mentioned on object)

Place

photographer: Yosemite Valley
San Francisco

Dating

c. 1881 - in or before 1886

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 102 mm

What

• mountains
• dale, valley
• adult man

Where

• Half Dome

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)