Title(s)

Twee gezichten op de zeestraat bij Port Arthur
A distant view of the Port Arthur straits from the Hwangkin hill forts, Port Arthur (title on object)
A distant view of the Port Arthur straits from the Hwangkin hill forts, Port Arthur (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1637A-58

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The fall of Port Arthur.’
• inscription: ‘On the rock in the centre is the Weiyuen Fort (...) on plain-ground near the shore is a parade-ground.’

Artist

• photographer: Ordnance Survey
• Kazumasa Ogawa

Place

photographer: Mantsjoerije
Japan

Dating

30-Nov-1894

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 426 mm × width 195 mm

What

• straits, narrows
• gulf, bay

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

• Album of the Japan-China war 1 (RP-F-2001-7-1637A)