Title(s)

Zes portretten van dieven en oplichters

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1056-21

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘109 (...) 114’
• inscription: ‘William E. Farrell (...) masked burglar.’

Description

Linksboven William E. Farrell, midden boven Edward Gearing, rechtsboven James Titterington, linksonder Charles Smyth, midden onder James Fitzgerald, rechtsonder George Ellwood.

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
• thief
• 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)