Title(s)

Rots met kwarts bij een bedrijf voor goudwinning aan de Cuyuni rivier in Guyana
View of the Quartz Rock at the British Guiana Gold Company's Diggings on the Rio Cuyuni (title on object)

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-404-7

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘43’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous

Place

Guyana

Dating

c. 1856 - in or before 1866

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 97 mm × width 142 mm

What

• minerals and metals: gold
• rock-formations

Where

• Guyana

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

• An illustrated history of British Guiana compiled from various authorities (RP-F-2001-7-404)