Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
Inscription: | l/r "FSchafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, initials conjoined in a monogram |
Verso: | said to have been "Eddy's Peak - Northern California" before lining |
Provenance: | Sold in 1971 by Willoughby-Toschi Gallery, San Francisco, to private collection, Northern California; sold 4 August 2015 as lot 7 for $2500 by Bonhams, Los Angeles. |
Reproductions: | Bonhams 4 August 2015 sale 22419 catalog |
Site: | Eddy's Peak, now known as Mount Eddy (elevation 9038 feet), is located about 15 miles southwest of Mount Shasta. |
Note: | A painting with the title Eddy's Peak, Upper Sacramento River was offered as lot 69 on page 6 in the catalog of a 17 November 1885 auction in San Francisco but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is the same painting. |
Identification: | Title from reported verso inscription. |
In index(es): | Title list, miscellaneous other well-known landmarks |