'Aden Residency Bungalow'. Photographer: Unknown

Title:

'Aden Residency Bungalow'. Photographer: Unknown

Creator:

Author: Frederick Mercer Hunter

Date:

1873/1877

Description:

Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:This photograph shows the Residency bungalow at Aden in the left-hand background. The buildings on the right are likely to be the 'mess-house' or 'quarters of the officers of the Royal Artillery' (p. 9), all of which were situated adjacent to the Residency on a bluff overlooking the sea at Ras Tarshyne, on the westernmost boundary of the Steamer Point peninsula.A boat at anchor is just visible in the bay behind the Residency.Two cannon are situated to the right of centre of the empty plain, which takes up most of the middleground, while an empty horse and carriage and barrel stand to the right in the middleground.Inscriptions:In pencil, upper right corner adjacent to print: ‘1’.Physical description: Dimensions:166 x 233 mmFormat:1 albumen print pasted to backing paper as mounted, folding frontispieceMaterials:Silver printing-out paper, albumen printCondition:The print is unevenly hand-cut. There is significant toning at edges, particularly, lower and left and right-hand, as well as along the central fold.Some tracing marks are evident along lower edge from left and a pen mark 3.5 cm from upper on right-hand edge is post-printing.Foliation:‘1’Process:Albumen print

Language:

English

Type:

Photograph

Type (Narrower):

Photographs

Type (Broader):

Image

Subject:

Ethnographic heritage

Geographic region:

Aden

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000f_ar
81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000f_en
T.11308/1
T.11308/1

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