View of Beira Lake and Slave Island from clock tower and lighthouse with buildings in the foreground, Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

People:

Unknown (photographer)
De Beer (dedicatee)
Mrs. Ward (role unspecified)

Title:

View of Beira Lake and Slave Island from clock tower and lighthouse with buildings in the foreground, Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

Date:

after 1857

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

composition: 19,5 × 27,8 cm (7 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.) secondary support: 64,5 × 39,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0447.04:056

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

A gold gilt line frames the photograph.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, centre left: with title

Location:

Slave Island Colombo Sri Lanka

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
street
houses
buildings
lake

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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