Title(s)

Jongens die van een rots af duiken in Madeira
Portuguese diving (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-28

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The whole detail of this living scene was recorded by the great artist, Light, in one five-hundredth part of a second. This exposure was obtained by means of a Thornton-Pickard Focal-plane shutter.’

Artist

• T.M. Bianchi (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous

Place

Madeira

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 136 mm × width 95 mm

What

• diving (movement in water)

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)