Title(s)

Twee foto's van uitvergrootte vingerafdrukken van vermoedelijk criminelen
Finger-prints arranged for police-court case (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-15

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘By permission of the authorities at New Scotland Yard. The left-hand illustration is an enlarged photograph of a tell-tale finger-mark left by a criminal upon a piece of glass. The right-hand photograph is a similar enlargement of the criminal's thumb-print taken on paper. Eighteen identical points have been marked off to prove to the judge and the jury that this particular prisoner left the thumb-mark on the glass. (See chap. xi.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 80 mm × width 140 mm

What

• finger-prints

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)