Title(s)

Bloedresten op een zakdoek en een handtekening op een Frans document
Photographing the invisible (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-19

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The upper illustration is a photograph of a portion of a handerchief from which some blood-stains had been washed out with soap and water, so that they were quite invisible to the eye. The photograph reveals their presence. The lower illustration is a photograph of part of an old French document from which the signature had disappeared. The camera saw what the eye could not see. (See chap. xiii.)’

Description

De bloedvlekken en de handtekening zijn met het blote oog niet zichtbaar maar door fotografie wel.

Artist

• Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (possibly)
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 143 mm × width 86 mm

What

• blood
• handkerchief

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)