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- Balle View, Buitenzorg
Date1876
PlaceJava, Indonesia
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (19.1 × 23.7 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 18 1/4 in. (34.9 × 46.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 18 1/4 in. (34.9 × 46.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lynn and Peter Coneway
Object number88.201.2
Not on view
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Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
above image on mount in ink "Java, 1876"
below image "Balle View,-Buitenzorg, Java / (The most beautiful view in the world)"
below image "Balle View,-Buitenzorg, Java / (The most beautiful view in the world)"
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