Title(s)

Delvende mijnwerkers in een mijn te Cornwall
Overhand stoping, Cook's Kitchen Mine (title on object)
Underhand stoping, East Pool Mine (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-241-5

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘7.’
• number: ‘8.’

Description

Links drie mijnwerkers op een houten steiger in de Cook's Kitchen Mine, rechts delvende mijnwerkers met hamers in de East Pool Mine.

Artist

• John Charles Burrow
• anonymous

Place

Cornwall
United Kingdom

Dating

c. 1893

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 243 mm × width 304 mm

What

• tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: hammer
• shafts and galleries (of a mine)
• miner
• mining

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)