Title(s)

Pijlers in de Blue Hills Mine te Cornwall
Heave, looking west, Blue Hills Mine (title on object)
Heave, looking east, Blue Hills Mine (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-241-12

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘21.’
• number: ‘22.’

Description

Boven een pijler met op de voorgrond een houten stut, onder mijnwerkers in een pijler.

Artist

• photographer: John Charles Burrow
• anonymous

Place

photographer: Cornwall
United Kingdom

Dating

c. 1893

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 304 mm × width 243 mm

What

• shafts and galleries (of a mine)
• miner
• beam, log of wood

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)