Title(s)

Portret van twee onbekende Afrikaanse jonge vrouwen voor een rieten woning
Caffre girls, 13 and 14 yearls old (title on object)

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1128-39

Artist

• anonymous

Dating

c. 1877 - in or before 1882

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 140 mm × width 88 mm

What

• historical persons
• adolescent, young woman, maiden
• Africans
• housing

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Picturesque scenery of South Africa : a series of original and artistic photographs, comprising views of the great South African diamond fields and mines, the principal cities of the country, scenes from the Zulu War, etc., with many portraits of native men, women and children in the various phases of tropical life (RP-F-2001-7-1128)