Material Type: Photographs / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(19)
Title:: The 'Great Dragon-Tree' at the Villa de Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of a large dragon tree in the garden of the property of the Marquis of Sauzal, facing p. 419 (and there described).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(2)
Title:: Volcanic 'blowing cone' in Orotava, on the northern coast of Teneriffe. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 27. Stereographic view looking along a street in La Orotava, towards the volcanic cone, with three men standing in the foreground. See pp. 54-55, for Smyth's description of taking several photographs at this location.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(20)
Title:: Trunk of the great dragon-tree. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 427, of the base of the tree seen in print 19: 'On the masonry filling up the northern side, is standing our interpreter, the Vice-Consul's son, to afford a human scale of measure' (p. 427).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(3)
Title:: Peak of Teneriffe from Orotava, on the northern coast. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 63. Stereographic view looking over the rooftops of La Orotava, towards the summit of Pico de Teide in the distance. See p. 403 for Smyth's notes on the difficulty of securing satisfactory photographs of distant scenes at this location.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(4)
Title:: Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 103 and showing tents, a telescope and other equipment, with a female figure (Mrs Jessie Smyth), posed among the impedimenta: 'At the back, and on either side of the tent, ran dwarf stone walls, to keep off the wind; the narrow interven...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(5)
Title:: Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 131, showing the erected telescope, with two figures posed among the equipment at the base.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(6)
Title:: Cliff and floor of the great crater − eight miles in diameter, and 7000 feet above the sea − under Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 145, looking down into the crater, with the cliff edge in the left foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(7)
Title:: Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(8)
Title:: Trachyte blocks on Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of rock formations, facing p. 193. These 'curiously stray blocks of greenstone, and of black lava,' are described on p. 167.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(9)
Title:: Masses of lava slag at Alta Vista. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 215, of lava mounds. These blocks, 'varied and grotesque,' are described on p. 250.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

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