Légende
Peat workers cutting peat by hand, Peat treading, Collection E, Geographical gallery of images, collected by MJ Broekhuijsen, headmaster of a school in Amsterdam, stereograph, number: '7.', inscription: '(See pl. 6.) Now already rendered unnecessary in many places by the printing press.', number: 'E.7.', Netherlands, publisher: Merkelbach & Co., Amsterdam, compiler (person in literature): Martien Johan Broekhuijsen, 1900 - 1902, photographer, compiler (person in literature), pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 86 mm x width 176 mm, peat-cutting, A sepia-toned photograph showing a flat muddy landscape with a low horizon and a body of water in the background, five young men wearing dark work clothes and caps standing and leaning over long handled tools stuck into the mud, the men arranged across the scene from left to right with one standing closer to the foreground on the left and another closer on the right, visible ruts and rectangular impressions in the wet ground, clumps of mud and scattered debris on the surface, a strip of grassy or straw-covered foreground at the bottom, and a pale textured sky occupying the upper portion of the image.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A80_446
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
48.3Mo (8.7Mo) / 34.5cm x 35.1cm / 4071 x 4148 (300dpi)