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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

The Great Geyser

Accession no.:	Y: 54/35/1
Object name:	Watercolour
Title:	The Great Geyser
Description:	This and other very similar representations held by SPRI of these geysers relate to a journey in Iceland made in 1789 by John Thomas Stanley. He produced a sketch which is the basis for these watercolours and print. For his account of the journey see: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol3, Part 2, 1794 p. 127-53.
Medium:	Watercolour
Artist:	Reinagle, P.
Note:	Probably by P. Reinagle, 1790. Presented to SPRI by L.C.G. Clarke, 1954.
Dimensions:	Picture: Width: 490mm, height: 590mm mount: Width: 505mm, height: 685mm