Title(s)

Twee zwarte mannen met speren voor het paviljoen van Le continet mysterieux
Le continent mistérieux Diorama (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1494-18

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Exposition Universelle D'Anvers 1894’

Description

Onderdeel van een omslag met 49 platen.

Artist

• Charles Bernhoeft (mentioned on object)
• Charles Bernhoeft (mentioned on object)
• printer: anonymous

Place

Antwerp
Luxemburg (stad)

Dating

c. 1894

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 152 mm × width 215 mm

What

• world fair, world exhibition
• Africans
• casting weapons: spear

When

• 1894 - 1894

Where

• Antwerp

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Exposition universelle d'Anvers 1894 (RP-F-2001-7-1494)

• Ethnics and trade : photography and the colonial exhibitions in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels, p. 45, 50, afb. 38