Title(s)

Mijnwerkers in de Dolcoath Mine te Cornwall
Balance box at Dolcoath Mine (title on object)
Gig at Dolcoath (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-241-3

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘3.’
• number: ‘4.’

Description

Links twee mijnwerkers op een 'balance box', rechts twee mijnwerkers in een mijnlift.

Artist

• John Charles Burrow
• anonymous

Place

Cornwall
United Kingdom

Dating

c. 1893

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 243 mm × width 304 mm

What

• elevator, lift
• shafts and galleries (of a mine)
• miner

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)