Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8778
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"View from Te Hape o toroa..."
Date
1886
Creator
Charles Spencer (1854 - 1933, New Zealander) , Photographer
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 200mm
width (print): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape featuring Tarawera Lake in the distance with steam billowing in the foreground. Captioned on a tissue overlay, full title "View from Te Hape o toroa at back Site of Pink Terrace." Highlighted features include [left to right]: "The warm swamp"; "Ariki arm of Tarawera Lake"; "Chasm in Pink Terrace"; Tarawera Range"; and "The Fissure." Image scaled in pencil on the right, "2,000 feet." and below "3,000 yards." The print is embossed "Charles Spencer, photographer".
Object history
From an album of photographs describing the eruption of Mount Tarawera on the central North Island of New Zealand on 10 June 1886. Presented to the Royal Society by James Hector on 17 July 1886, with additional photographs on 22 September 1886.
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