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Smyth, Charles Piazzi
English (b. Italy, 1819-1900)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Tent scene on Mount Guajara
BOOK TITLE: "Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds", London, Lovell Reeve Publ., 1858

1858
PUBLISHER: Reeve, Lovell
albumen print
6.0 x 7.0 cm. (each, arched top)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
95:0152:0004

INSCRIPTION: printed on the mount on the top of image: "Photo-Stereograph 4 printed below image: "Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 Feet High, p. 134" "Printed by A.J. Melhuish, under the superintendence of James Glaisher Esq.r F.R.S. and published by Lovell Reeve"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/96, MAP. One plate (no. 15) is missing in this copy of the book. See RB DP 302 349 56 for a complete copy.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, tent
artifact, telescope
landscape, figure in

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