Java. Rhaden [Raden] Saleh (Native Prince). Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio portrait of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh, seated on a chair carved in gothic style, his right arm resting on a table and holding an open book. He wears a richly decorated jacket and turban. Photograph unsigned, but attributed to Woodbury and Page.
Java. Rhaden Saleh's wife. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length seated portrait of a woman identified as the wife of the artist Raden Saleh (see Photo 1224/4(35)), her arm resting on a table, and with a female attendant seated on the floor beside her. Photograph unsigned, but attributed to Woodbury and Page.
Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Men and women at work in the roadway in front of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K. F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Traditionally the wax design was carefully applied to the cloth by female workers with a specially designed pen.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, L...
Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Women at work on batik pieces on the verandah of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K .F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Kain means cloth, while batik refers to a traditional technique of painting textile.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), p. 98). Photog...
Execution at Batavia [Jakarta]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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'Execution of the eight so-called Tambun murderers in Bekasi on 24 August 1870. These men were sentenced to death for the murder of a number of people, among them the Assistant-Resident of Meester Cornelis, now Jatinegara, E. R. J. C.de Kuijper, on 2 April 1869. Although the attempt at rebellion...