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- Title:
The Peake of Tenerife
- Date:
- 1829
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen, gray ink, brown ink, black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches (34.9 x 42.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in pen and brown ink, center left: "E.C.M." [Edward Charles Mitchell ?]; in pen and brown ink, center right: "Alfred Diston | Tenerife | 1829"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "The Peake of Tenerife | seen from la Estancia de la Sierra, at the entrance of the plain called Las Canadas | The medium height of this plain, called by Humbolt that of the spartum Nubigerum is | by hims [?] estimated at 9800 feet above the level of the sea, & its total extent about 9 leagues"
Signed and dated on verso in pen and brown ink, center right: "Alfred Diston | Tenerife | 1829"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1155
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | mountain | rocks (landforms) | volcano
- Associated Places:
- Canarias | España | Europe | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Tenerife
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7796
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