Title(s)

The Kandyan railway

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-664-6

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Chemin de fer (...) haut des montagnes)’

Artist

• maker: Henry William Cave

Place

Kandy

Dating

c. 1900

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 124 mm × width 188 mm

What

• dale, valley
• sawahs, rice paddies
• railway, tramway; rack railway

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

• Views of Ceylon (RP-F-2001-7-664)