Kimberley, S.A., where Cecil Rhodes was besieged - looking north west from the famous De Boers diamond mine
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 179 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.38
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting "Kimberley, S.A., where Cecil Rhodes was besieged - looking north west from the famous De Boers diamond mine." The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin: Kimberley, S.A., where Cecil Rhodes was besieged - looking north west from the famous De Boers diamond mine. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood. Also embossed with the number 78. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Washington D.C. Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Verso printed in black ink: Kimberley, S.A., where Cecil Rhodes was besieged - looking north west from the famous De Boers diamond mine written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian. Kimberley, S.A., where Cecil Rhodes was besieged - looking north west from the famous De Boers diamond mine.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographic studio