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Unknown Artist — Untitled: (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indigenous workers); (ornate buildings, verso)

Unknown Artist

Untitled: (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indigenous workers); (ornate buildings, verso)

1870

Imperial documentation reaches encyclopedic scope in this double-sided album page, systematically recording both human hierarchies and architectural achievements in British colonial territories.

Medium
Album page with two albumen prints mounted on both sides

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Unknown Artist, Untitled: (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indigenous workers); (ornate buildings, verso), 1870

Imperial documentation reaches encyclopedic scope in this double-sided album page, systematically recording both human hierarchies and architectural achievements in British colonial territories.

Medium
Album page with two albumen prints mounted on both sides
Year
1870
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

British Colonialism, Photography, Albumen Print, Figures, Documentary, 19th Century, Photograph, Documentary Photography, Orientalism, Historical, Architectural Photography, Colonial, Album Page, Sepia, Victorian Era, British, Indigenous Peoples, Architecture, Figurative

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago