negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Eu,F.N.801
- Description
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Negative (black and white); a woman and a man, dressed in regional costume, passing under an arch in a stone building with a sculpture in a niche above, walking on a bridge (?); the woman carries a woven basket on her head; another man walking opposite of them; Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Croatia.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 1900-1905
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 8.90 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Related images: Eu-A1-1 through 827 are all the same collection.
Bibliography: This image relates to Durham's work in Albania 1900-1905, a written account of which can be found in: Durham, M. E. 1905. "The burden of the Balkans". London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons.
PicDoc 277: The Durham list in the associated PicDoc, compiled by George Sweatman (ca 1997), indicates that this scene is the "Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Entrance".
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Production: The negative was originally housed in an glassine envelope, which bears the inscription: "29 DALMATIA
Entrance to Ragusa
(now called Dubrovnik)".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Negative has silvering around the edges; small pin holes in all corners, which are showing signs of loss and degradation.
Digital copy: saturation and levels adjusted.
- Acquisition date
- 20thC
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,F.N.801
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Eu-A1-73 (British Museum print number)