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1. Photo 1224/3(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(58)
Title:
An Execution. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1224/4(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(37)
Title:
Java. Rhaden Saleh's House. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of the house and garden of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh, with figures seated on the terrace in front of the main entrance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1224/4(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(44)
Title:
Execution at Batavia [Jakarta]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
'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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
24th August 1870
Extent:
1 item