| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 10 x 12 in (25 x 30 cm) |
| Inscription: | Signed l/l: "FSchafer." in a cramped version of the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. The indistinct initials may be conjoined in a monogram. |
| Verso: | Titled in pencil on the stretcher: "Lassen Butte Cal" in an unknown script hand. |
| Provenance: | In collection of judge Edward Coke Hill (1866 - 1961), Anchorage, Alaska, and Oakland, California; by descent to his wife, Ella Martha Wilson Hill (1879 - 1962), Oakland, California; bequeathed to private collection, Oakland, California; thence by descent in the family twice, most recently in 1999, to private collection, Santa Cruz, California. |
| Citations: | Personal communication with the 1999 owner. |
| Site: | Lassen Peak, California, before that volcano erupted in 1914/1915. |
| Note: | (1) The small size suggests that this is an oil sketch but the foreground is quite detailed, which suggests that it is actually a small studio painting. (2) A painting with the title Lassen Butte was offered for sale in a 14 October 1909 auction in Victoria, British Columbia. Another painting, with the title Lassen Butte, near Marysville was offered as lot 59 on page 5 in the catalog of a 17 November 1885 auction in San Francisco. Unfortunately, there is not enough information in those catalogs to either include or exclude the possibility that one of them is the same painting. |
| Identification: | Title as found on verso stretcher inscription. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Lassen Peak, California |
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