Title(s)

Mijnwerkers in een mijn te Cornwall
A rock-drill end, East Pool Mine (title on object)
A mill at the 412, Dolcoath Mine (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-241-11

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘19.’
• number: ‘20.’

Description

Links drie mijnwerkers met een steenboor, rechts een mijnwerker naast een puinstort.

Artist

• photographer: John Charles Burrow
• anonymous

Place

photographer: Cornwall
United Kingdom

Dating

c. 1893

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 243 mm × width 304 mm

What

• shafts and galleries (of a mine)
• miner
• railway, tramway; rack railway
• tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: drill

Where

• Cornwall

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

• 'Mongst mines and miners : underground scenes by flash-light : a series of photographs, with explanatory letterpress, illustrating methods of working in Cornish mines (RP-F-2001-7-241)