Jemulpo. Pack bull

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Accession Nr.: F.2004.644.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured glass slide
Dimensions: height: 8 cm
width: 8 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. A street on a hill in the Korean district of Jemulpo The driver of an ox laden with wood is taking a rest on the doorstep of a more affluent house (a rice shop, according to the shop sign). A young man stands in the foreground, who half covers the coat of a woman who walks away. A Korean man is coming up the street, with another woman
half covered by him. In the distance, on the hillside, the tile-roofed houses of the Japanese quarter can be seen.