Chinese Houses, Java (1901-1930)

Jan Christiaan Poortenaar

etching, printed in sepia-brown ink, with plate-tone

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Figures, some carrying baskets, crossing wooden bridge between oriental houses; boats on river beneath Etching, printed in sepia-brown ink, with plate-tone. Signed.

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

44.6 x 49.6 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.21

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1919-30; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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