Title(s)

Geldkist en twee vingerafdrukken
Finger-print found on cash-box (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-16

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘By permission of the authorities at New Scotland Yard. The left-hand lower illustration is a photographic enlargement of the finger-mark found upon a cash-box left at the scene of a noted murder. The neighbour photograp is of the prisoner's finger-print taken on paper. The general similarity is apparent. (See chap. xi.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 98 mm × width 88 mm

What

• finger-prints
• money-chest, treasure-chest, money-box

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)