Title(s)

Vallende schoorsteen en een kraaiende haan
Two instantaneous photographs (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-9

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The upper illustration is of a disused chimey-stack being demolished. The falling chimey appears to be stationary in mid-air, having been photographed in one-hundredth part of a second by means of a Thornton-Pickard focal-plane shutter. The lower illustration shows the attitude of a cock when crowing, and was taken in one-eightieth part of a second by means of a Thornton-Pickard time and instantaneous shutter.’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous
• Thornton-Pickard (possibly)

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 123 mm

What

• chimney
• fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.)

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)