Title(s)

Microscoopopname van kristallen en het bakje met deze kristallen op ware grootte
Photomicrograph (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-21

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The large illustration is a photgraph, taken through a microscope and shows a very small portion of the “white specks” (polycystina) seen in the lower illustration, but magnified enormously. The lower photograph gives the actual size of the objects which were photographed by the microscope. (See chapter xiv.)’

Artist

• Arthur E. Smith (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 150 mm × width 98 mm

What

• microscope

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)