Title(s)

Zes portretten van oplichters

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1056-19

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘97 (...) 102’
• inscription: ‘Alexander C. Bransom (...) confidence man.’

Description

Linksboven Alexander C. Branscom, midden boven Franklin J. Moses, rechtsboven David Swain, linksonder Edward Lillie, midden onder John Cannon, rechtsonder Edward Lyman.

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: Heliotype Printing Company

Place

Boston

Dating

c. 1881 - in or before 1886

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 282 mm × width 196 mm

What

• fraudulence, swindling
• historical persons not known by name (+ (full) bust portrait)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Portraits of Thieves and Pickpockets (RP-F-2001-7-1056)