Title(s)

Mijnwerkers in een mijnschacht
Down in a coal-mine (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-23

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘In the upper illustration the miner was lying in a narrow working, while the camera was in the main road. This photograph was taken with a flash-light. It was impossible to take the lower photograph by such means; the coal-cutting machine and the two men were several feet within a working measuring only eighteen inches from floor to roof. (See chap. xv.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 122 mm

What

• mine
• shafts and galleries (of a mine)

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

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)