Title(s)

Gezicht op Sierra Nevada, Californië
Key to the High Sierra from Glacier Point Hotel (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-902-43

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Cloud's Rest/ Half, or/ South Dome./ Mt-Ten-ie-ya/ Mt. Maclure/ Mt. Florence./ Mt. Lyell./ Cap of Liberty./ Mt. Ritter./ Vernal Fall./ Nevada Fall./ Mt. Clark./ Grey Mountain./ Red Mountain./ Mt. Starr King.’

Artist

• photographer: George Fiske (mentioned on object)
• Moss Engraving Co. (mentioned on object)

Place

photographer: Sierra Nevada (Noord- en Centraal Amerika)
New York (city)

Dating

c. 1881 - in or before 1886

Material

• paper

Technique

printing block

Measurements

height 97 mm × width 165 mm

What

• mountains

Where

• Sierra Nevada (Noord- en Centraal Amerika)

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)