negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Eu,F.N.922
- Description
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Negative (black and white); frontier Montenegrin guards holding rifles on an open grassy area; two horses wearing saddles and a wooden stand; mountains in the background; Andrijevica (?), Montenegro.
Photographic process
- Production date
- Aug 1912
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres
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Width: 13.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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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 Balkans 1910-1913, a written account of which can be found in: Durham, M. E. 1914. "The struggle for Scutari (Turk, Slav and Albanian)". London: Edward Arnold.
PicDoc 293: The Durham list in the associated PicDoc, compiled by George Sweatman (ca 1997), bears the inscription "Frontier guard (Montenegrin) nr. Andrejevtya [sic] - Aug. 1912".
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Production: The negative was originally housed in an glassine envelope, which bears the inscription: "66 Frontier out post in Andrijeurtya [sic] Aug 1912".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Remnants of adhesive on one edge of the negative; lower corner, small area brown spotting, possibly due to chemical change.
Digital copy: saturation and levels adjusted.
- Acquisition date
- 20thC
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,F.N.922
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Eu-A2-10 (British Museum print number)