Title(s)

Foto van vier onbekende mannen, vermoedelijk dieven, in een lijst
Early photograph of criminals (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-6

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘By permission of the Criminal Investigation Department, Glasgow. The photograph from which this has been reproduced is one of Scott Archer's positives on glass. The inscription on the back of the little frame commences-“No.1. James Martin Lindsay. Dirty thief.” (See chap. xi.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous
• after photo by: Frederick Scott Archer

Place

Glasgow

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 89 mm × width 110 mm

What

• criminals

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)