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Photo 49/1(13)
- Record Id:
- 041-003042957
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003042943
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023457078.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024111424.0x000011
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 49/1(13)
- Title:
- 'View from Old Fort, Hormuz.' Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
-
Genre/Subject Matter:
View from the old fort on Hormuz Island (perhaps the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle) towards a settlement, probably Hormuz itself. All the structures are low-lying stone buildings with wooden or reed roofs.
Craggy hills rise in the background. At left the shoreline curves away into the distance.
This is the first (right-hand) image in a panoramic pair taken from the same position. The accompanying part is at Photo 49/1/14.
Inscriptions:
Ink, below image: 'View from Old Fort, Hormuz.'
Pencil, lower right, alongside image: ‘13’
Pencil, upper left, alongside image: ‘a’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003042943
040-003042944
041-003042957 - Is part of:
- Photo 49 : Sir Louis William Dane Collection: Photographs relating to Lord Curzon's tour of the Persian Gulf, with miscellaneous portraits.
Photo 49/1 : Dane Collection: 'Photographs of Lord Curzon's tour in the Persian Gulf, November, 1903'.
Photo 49/1(13) : 'View from Old Fort, Hormuz.' Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003042943[0001]/040-003042944[0013]/041-003042957
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 49
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 b&w silver gelatin print
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023282009.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1903
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 22 Nov 1903
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Dimensions:
102 x 147 mm
Condition:
The print is in good condition, though the mounting paper is heavily foxed and crumbling. A line curves from right to left across the centre of the image and may be the result of tearing or an incision with ink.
Foliation:
‘13’
Process:
Silver gelatin
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)