| Date: | said to be 1879 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 36 in (51 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined |
| Verso: | said to be "Mt. Shasta" and dated 1879 |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Alameda, California, by 1970. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #34 (color, 1970) |
| Site: | A view to the Northeast through a wide river valley past Black Butte, a distinctive peak of 6325 feet elevation located just west of Mount Shasta. |
| Description: | The snow-capped peaks of Mount Shasta stand in the center against a blue sky half filled with clouds abvove a series of much lower, ridges. In the middle distance on the left rises a steep, rocky, brownish mountain (Black Butte); in the center is a green meadow with a small herd of what may be cows, through which flows a stream. The stream approaches the viewer in the center past a number of bushes, and between brownish-grey banks, brightly reflecting the snow of the mountain and the clouds above. The edge of the meadow is ringed with conifers of varying heights, none reaching the sky. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | The Black Butte, Shasta in the distance, from Sisson's, California is a very similar scene of Black Butte and Mount Shasta viewed from a pastoral valley. |
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