Title

Building the pithead, 1832, (1833). Creator: Auguste Raffet.

Caption

Building the pithead, 1832, (1833). 'Construction de la descente de Fossé'. Soldiers with baskets and wooden beams in a nocturnal hilly landscape. Part of the series of 24 prints about the siege of the Citadel of Antwerp, November 30-December 23, 1832.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A87_236

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,2Mb (2,0Mb) / 16,3in x 11,2in / 4894 x 3374 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe building historical arts industry country French France construction art museum Netherlands Dutch Belgium color defence nocturnal industrial defences fortifications fortification Belgian war beam beams location century mine soldiers soldier print concept Colour 19th century nineteenth century siege history historic pit head pithead Rijksmuseum Siege of Antwerp TGN Auguste Raffet Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet Denis Auguste Marie Raffet Raffet Auguste Raffet Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet Denis Auguste Marie paper Heritage Art Print gabion gabions Low Countries 19th-century Fr?res watercolour (paint) lacquer (coating) Gilhaut Fr?res Gilhaut