Title(s)

Serie van foto's waarop een man een kegel van het hoofd van iemand anders optilt, bedoelt voor een cinematograaf
Cinematograph pictures (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-8

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The whole of these photographs will pass through the cinematograph in less than one and a half seconds. A subject with a very quick movement has been selected, as otherwise the difference between the successive pictures would be scarcely observable. Observe the right hand falling in the last row of pictures. (See chap. iv.)’

Artist

• anonymous (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous
• after photo by: John Trotter

Place

Glasgow

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 117 mm × width 92 mm

What

• cinematographic apparatus

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)