Title(s)

Drie portretten van onbekende mannen, vermoedelijk criminelen, in een passe-partout met hun vingerafdruk
Three criminals and their thumb-prints (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-12

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘By permission of the authorities at New Scotland Yard. Any of these three criminals' photographs might be mistaken for the other. Their tumb-prints, as shown beneath each portrait, could not be so mistaken. (See chap. xi.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 93 mm × width 127 mm

What

• criminals

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

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)