Author: DEMMENI, JEAN (PHOTOGRAPHER; 1866-1939),
Title: Het smeden van Gongs. Java. [Gong smithing on Java]. [Originele uitgave;Original edition].
Description: Haarlem, Kleynenberg & Co., [circa], 1912. Large folio, 73x60cm. Original black/white picture in photogravure, printed on heavy limp paper, featuring a Scne of a indigenous javanese Gong smithing studio on Java, Dutch East Indies. Dutch language title at tail of view, publ. name at lower left corner beneath illustrated area. [Kleynenberg, plate no. 91]. Dutch language captioned monochrome plate illustrating the interior of a Gong-smithing studio on Java. Photographed by Jean Demmeni, a french indo-european photographer engaged by a dutch publisher Kleynenberg Cy., Haarlem, Holland, between1911-1913. Fine copy.

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