Title(s)

Wolk en bliksemschichten boven huizen
A cloud and dark lightning (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-31

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The upper illustration is a study of the formation of a cloud. The lower illustration shows an apparent dark flash of lightning. Is there such a thing as dark lightning? (See chap. xx.)’

Artist

• photographer: Joseph Norman Lockyer (possibly)
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 128 mm × width 85 mm

What

• clouds
• lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt

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)