Title(s)

Fotoreproducties van een portret van Wilhelm II en een portret van Arthur Korn, verzonden per telegraaf
Telegraphed photographs (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-24

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘These photographs are just as they were received by the electric telegraph. The left-hand picture is of the Crown Prince of Germany, while the other is of Professor Korn, who invented the apparatus by which photographs may be transmitted across many hundreds of miles of country. (See chap. xvi.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous
• after photo by: Arthur Korn (possibly)

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 80 mm × width 109 mm

What

• post, telegraph and telephone; means of communication
• adult man

Who

• Arthur Korn
• Wilhelm II (keizer van Duitsland)

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)