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032-003184238 Collection Area Visual Arts Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 1183

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183
Title:
Photographs of Java. Photographer(s): Woodbury and Page.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 57 albumen prints, individually mounted on card, and contained in a leather-bound box, titled Java in gilt on front. The majority are uncaptioned, but a few have titles written in ink in a contemporary hand on the bottom right corner of the mount, and most are numbered in a contemp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
57 items

2. Photo 1183(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(27)
Title:
Boar hunt. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
A posed study of two Javanese hunters standing over a boar cornered in undergrowth, the figure on the left lunging towards the animal with a spear, the other man seen in the act of drawing his sword. The boar in this unconvincing tableau is clearly a stuffed animal. Location given as Garut in St...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1183(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(25)
Title:
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '15' in pencil on mount. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of unidentified
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1183(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(40)
Title:
Native bamboo bridge, Java. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along a riverbank at an unidentified location, towards an elaborate bamboo bridge crossing the stream.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1183(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(51)
Title:
[Banana plantation, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '36' in pencil on mount. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along an unsurfaced roadway, towards a mixed plantation of bananas and palms. Precise location unidentified.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1183(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(18)
Title:
Tropical fruit [Java]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '48' in pencil on mount. Genre: Still Life Photography Studio arrangement of tropical fruit in a pyramidal composition.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1183(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(39)
Title:
[Chinese processional sedan chair, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '33' in pencil on mount.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1183(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(15)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '46' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a large wicker-walled, tile-roofed hut. A European man is seated on the verandah of the building in the right background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1183(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(16)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '50' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a fenced-off plantation of bananas.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1183(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(38)
Title:
[Chinese grave, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '35' in pencil on mount. Genre: Architectural Photography View of a Chinese grave at an unidentified location, with aline of guardian sculptures in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item