• Unknown (photographer)
• J.J.P. Oud (architect)

View of the principal façade of the Esveha Office Building, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1950

Gelatin silver print

composition: 17.3 x 12.4 cm primary overlay (irreg.): 18.5 x 14.4 cm secondary overlay (irreg.): 19.4 x 15.9 cm

PH1984:0882

• exterior view

- A grey media has been sprayed on the photograph to the l. and r. of the print. The first of two plastic film overlays has been prepared in the same way, along with additions of black ink which extend the grass appearing at the b. of the photograph to the l. and r. of the composition. A second overlay is transparent. A one cm wide strip at the l. edge of the photograph has been cut off and reattached with scotch tape.

imprinted - in the image, l.r.: "ESVEHA" [on building façade above door] numbered, inscribed and dated - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "9" [circled]; t.: "20. / J.J.P. Oud: / [with title] / 1948 / 2380 / 60c"; u.c.: "((links u. Verhebt [?] ausetzen!) / 40 x 40 cm" and with illeg. text; c.: "35" [circled]; c.r.: "24.6. / ANSPRITZEN" ["ANSPRITZEN" sideways]; and in pen and black ink, l.l.: "Eigendom van / K. WIEKART / Nachtegaalstraat 88 bis A / UTRECHT." stamped, inscribed and numbered - in black ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: "Bij bestelling opgeven: / No: D3872 ["D3872" inscribed by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink; underlined] / Auteursrecht - Copyright / RENES - ARNHEM / Holland - Giro 272 441[underlined] / bij publicatie is repro- / ductierecht verschuldigd / en dient onze naam ver- / meld te worden ook in- / dien de foto door dor- / den wordt aangeboden," [within square stamp]

• architecture