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Gold and silver mining, Japan, c1810. An illustration of the gold mines on Sado Island. Miners use buckets and pulleys to bail out water. From "Kinginzan Shikinaioka Kasegikata No Zu" ("Illustrations Of Working Methods In Gold And Silver Mines"), a series of three manuscript scrolls showing mining operations on Sado Island. (Japan, c1810).

Date

1810

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_044

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,9Mo) / 62,8cm x 19,9cm / 7417 x 2356 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather water people male library technology man men light industry country lights hot guy scaffold scaffolding clothes tools tool hammer tunnel color Japan Japanese lighting heat industrial rope dress mining gold miner miners miner ropes bamboo underground lamp location century flooded mine clothing bucket lamps concept flood buckets winch APPAREL pit flooding goldmine hammering gold mine British Library bad weather pulley gold mining Colour 19th century subterranean coal miner Chubu gold miners nineteenth century loin cloth loincloth Niigata-ken Sado silver mine TGN woodcut bailing Unknown water level Heritage Art loincloths 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing breechcloth