| Date: | 1881 (see Note) |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | Signed and dated indistinctly l/r: "Schafer 1881" in a printed hand that resembles Schafer's but may have been applied by someone else. |
| Verso: | Titled l/r: "Mt. Shasta" in black brush on the canvas in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. |
| Provenance: | From the auction catalog: "The Estate of Harry J. O'Conner III", Laguna Beach, California; sold 23 October 2018 for $2125 by John Moran Auctioneers, Inc., Monrovia, California, as lot 86 in "California & American Art" sale to collection of James M. Prager, Los Angeles. |
| Reproductions: | John Moran Auctioneers, Inc. catalog. |
| Site: | Despite the artist's verso title, the profile of the stratovolcano resembles Mount Hood more than Mount Shasta. There may be a view from the east that has this profile but that location would have been difficult to reach in the 1880s. |
| Note: | In the available photograph, the inscribed date could be read as "1886". But on closer inspection the curves that would lead to reading the last digit as a "6" seem to be in the underlying impasto rather than in the inscription. |
| Identification: | Title from the artist's verso inscription. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Mount Hood, Mount Shasta with Shastina small or omitted, dated paintings |
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