deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Pesachmaal
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1628 – 1628
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: antwerp
Subjects: preparation of the passover ~ last supper (matthew 26:17-20; mark 14:12-17; luke 22:7-14)

De prent is afkomstig uit een van de uitgaven van P.J. Paets uit Amsterdam. Ze wordt voor het eerst gebruikt in: Thomas à Kempis, Qui sequitur me. Leuven, J. Maes, 1628 [= Amsterdam, P.J. Paets] en Der Zielen Lust-hof. Leuven, I.Jacbosz voor P.J. Paets [= Amsterdam, P.J. Paets], 1629.
De voorstelling is gekopieerd naar een prent van Johannes Wierix voor: Nadal, Jerónimo. Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. Antwerpen, M. Nutius, 1593.
Gezicht op de Saint Etienne-du-Mont te Parijs
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1860 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: paris
Artist: ernest ladrey
Artist role: fotograaf, illustrator
Artist dates: 1830 – 1889
Subjects: church (exterior), façade (of house or building)
Inscriptions: number: ‘365.’, retailer's mark: ‘Maison Martinet/ 12, boulevard des capucines 12/ Grand-Hotel, Paris.’, address: ‘Passage des Princes PARIS.’
Panel
Object type: textile
Date: 1601 – 1800
Materials: linen, silk
Techniques: embroidery, weave, stitching
Location: france
Bordures de Tableau a la Romaine
Object type: print
Date: 1655 – 1657
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, ornament ~ festoon, garland, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

De middelste lijst met een adelaar geflankeerd door twee kinderen. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Menat Counterpoise with an Image of Bastet?
Object type: menat counterpoise, bastet wadjet
Date: 1070 – 664
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Subjects: goddess

Skilled faience artists of the Third Intermediate Period produced elaborate openwork spacers, beads, and even large menats. This fragment is the upper part of a faience menat, the menat roundel at the bottom being broken away. A lioness goddess is depicted beneath a shrine whose roof comprises a a uraeus frieze and winged sundisk mounted on by pillars formed by the wadj sign. The goddess wears a sun disk, holds an ankh, and, in her other hand, holds another wadj-scepter topped by an inscription while a similar wadj with inscription may be seen behind her. A third inscription may be seen at her feet. The inscriptions are barely readable, as often on these small objects, but appear to say "words spoken by Bastet", although Wadjet is another possibility.
Bracelet
Object type: costume and accessory
Date: 1 – 300
Materials: gold
Culture: roman
Location: roman empire
Subjects: beauty, rituals
Tulip
Object type: textile
Materials: cotton, dye
Techniques: printing block, weave, printing
Location: england
Artist: william morris
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1834 – 1896
Subjects: botanical, foliage, floral
Inscriptions: Label (detached): MORRIS & COMPANY, DECORATORS, LTD. 17. George Street, Hanover Square, London, W.1. / No. 987 / Tulip
't Vervallen huis te Brederode
Object type: print
Date: 1658 – 1658
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, letterpress printing
Location: zaandam
Artist: hendrik jacobsz soeteboom
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1616 – 1678
Subjects: ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gebruikt als illustratie op p. 88 van: Hendrik Jacobsz Soeteboom. De Zaanlants Arkadia. Amsterdam: Gerrit van Goedesberg, 1658.
Book cover
Object type: book cover
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: metal, silver

This electrotype is after an eighteenth-century original, in a private collection, Nuremburg, at the time of reproduction.
Palma Nova / Palma Nuova ville de l'etat des Venetiens dans le Frioul
Object type: area plan
Date: 1704 – 1704
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: fortified city, maps of cities
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, lower part of head, hair, neck, and upper back in three quarter view of youth to right
Gezicht op een dorp aan een rivier met een kasteelruïne, waarschijnlijk in Frankrijk
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1885 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: france
Subjects: river, village, landscape with ruins, ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc., france
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photogravure d'après un phototype négatif de Mr le baron de Launay/ Médaille d'Argent (Concours de 1890)’
Target Crossbow
Object type: arm
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: cord, steel, wood
Culture: french
Location: france
Portret van een man
Object type: drawing
Date: 1614 – 1614
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: monogrammist ws (graveur)
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: anonymous historical person portrayed alone
Soldiers and a Highlander (3 prints of varying size pasted onto a yellow sheet)
Object type: print
Date: 1834 – 1866
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: victor adam
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1801 – 1866
Subjects: soldiers,men,women,dogs,horses
Portret van Caspar Klock op 50-jarige leeftijd
Object type: print
Date: 1634 – 1634
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: bookshelves, justice, 'justitia'; 'giustitia divina' (ripa) ~ one of the four cardinal virtues, prudence, 'prudentia'; 'prudenza' (ripa) ~ one of the four cardinal virtues, historical persons
Inscriptions: date

Boven het portret Voorzichtigheid en Rechtvaardigheid, onder het portret een elfregelig vers.
Figuur zittend onder een boom
Object type: print
Date: 1917 – 1917
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: john dunge
Artist role: graficus, houtsnijder, illustrator
Artist dates: 1890 – 
Subjects: trees, sitting on the ground
Inscriptions: date
Brunswick Balke Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Roof Plan
Object type: architectural drawing
Materials: graphite, ink, linen, pencil
Location: united states
Artist: adler & sullivan, architects
Subjects: chicago, office buildings, buildings, architecture, plan, illinois
Groepsportret van tien studenten
Object type: photograph
Date: 1887 – 1887
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: leiden
Artist: israël david kiek
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1811 – 1899
Subjects: anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait, leiden
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Studenten Leiden’
Aantekening betreffende grafisch werk en tekeningen
Object type: aantekening
Date: 1908 – 1934
Materials: ink, pencil
Techniques: pen, writing
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: drawing, the graphic arts, money
Jagers
Object type: print
Date: 1638 – 1658
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, landscapes, hunting dogs, hunter, stall, stable
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een jager staat op het punt om te paard te vertrekken voor de jacht. Zijn aangelijnde jachthond stribbelt tegen. Een dienstknecht haalt een tweede paard van stal, mogelijk voor de jager die tussen zijn honden voor de stal zit te wachten.
Portret van Jan Gerrits van Embden
Object type: print
Date: 1702 – 1767
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: predikant, jan gerrits van emden
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portretbuste in ovaal van predikant Jan Gerrits van Embden, blootshoofds en iets naar links. Onder het portret staan de naam van de geportretteerde en een vierregelig vers in het Nederlands.
Portret van Gerardus Wouter Verweij Mejan
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: isaac cornelis elink sterk
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1808 – 1871
Subjects: the hague, eyeglasses, spectacles, historical persons
Inscriptions: mark: ‘M./ vS.’, collector's mark: ‘I.B.’

De geportretteerde draagt een vrijmetselaarskostuum met een hanger met de passer en winkelhaak. Hij draagt ook een bril en een ridderorde op zijn borst. Onder het portret zijn signatuur.
Maria met Kind en Johannes de Doper
Object type: print
Date: 1630 – 1690
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: mary and the christ-child with john the baptist (as child)

Maria met Kind zittend bij een boom. Voor haar het kind Johannes dat het Christuskind een vogel aanbiedt.
Studioportret van een jonge man met half lang haar en een vlassige snor
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1863 – 1866
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: istanbul
Inscriptions: name: ‘Albert Greiner, Amsterdam’
Emmerich a. Rh. Altenmarkt
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, lithograph
Location: emmerik
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc.
Landschap met man te paard en vrouw met hark
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jan stobbaerts
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1914
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage), agricultural implements: rake
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van een jonge vrouw
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1860 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: charles george sinclair
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Picture frame manufacturer/ Chas. G. Sinclair/ Crver & Gilder/ Photographer/ & Portrait Painter/ 264, Victoria Street South/ Grimsby’
Portret van een onbekende man
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1896
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: leiden
Artist: israël david kiek
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1811 – 1899
Subjects: adult man, anonymous historical person portrayed
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘bij het Station/ LEIDEN.’
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij, voorstellende een gezicht op een kade met havenwerkers
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1872 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Subjects: dock labourer, pier, quay, wharf
Meisje in de klederdracht van Domburg
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1910
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: folk costume, regional costume (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: number: ‘10’

Onderdeel van Leporelloalbum met Zeeuwse klederdrachten.
Chinese emperor and attendant
Object type: group
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: ludwigsburg porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1758 – 1824
Subjects: kings,boys
Lobster-Tail Burgonet
Object type: lobster tail burgonet
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: leather, steel
Culture: polish
Location: poland
Ontwerpen voor twee monogrammen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: chalk, paper, pencil
Artist: gerrit willem dijsselhof
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1924
Subjects: letter combinations such as letterword, anagram, letter square, monogram, etc.
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘SB/ WW’

Eén van de monogrammen is omlijst door bladeren. Blad 1 verso uit een schetsboek met 42 bladzijden.
Portrait of Edwin vom Rath’s Pug
Object type: drawing
Date: 1880 – 1895
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: conradijn cunaeus
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1828 – 1895
Subjects: dog (pug)

After his parents died, the unmarried and childless Edwin vom Rath stayed on alone in the vast family house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. His only company was his pug, here portrayed by the dog painter Conradijn Cunaeus. Vom Rath used the fortune his family had amassed in trading and processing cane sugar to buy art and to support a variety of cultural institutions.
George Square, Glasgow
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1858 – 1872
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: glasgow
Artist: george washington wilson
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1823 – 1893
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., monument, statue
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 802.’
Illuminatie van het stadhuis voor Willem V en Wilhelmina van Pruisen, 1768
Object type: print
Date: 1772 – 1772
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: william v (prince of orange), draughtsman, wilhelmina of prussia (princess of orange), public festivities on the occasion of royal events (+ illumination, fire-works ~ festive activities), decoration and illumination of streets, squares, etc. (~ triumphal entry, etc.)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illuminatie van de voorgevel en toren het stadhuis op de Dam, op 31 mei 1768. Met de aankomst van de koets met het prinselijk paar voor het stadhuis.
De Beurse is gesticht in 't jaer 1611 / Byrse condita anno 1611
Object type: print
Date: 1611 – 1750
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: tower, clock tower ~ monumental adornment, stock exchange, stock-market
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Cahill, Right Field, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

The "Old Judge" series of baseball cards (N172) was issued by Goodwin & Company from 1887 to 1890 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes.
Portret van Johannes Bugenhagen
Object type: print
Date: 1599 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: theologian, historical persons

Eerdere staat van de prent gebruikt in: Icones virorum nostra patrumq. memoria illustrium (...). Den Haag: Hendrick Hondius (I), 1599. Prent ook gebruikt in verschillende latere publicaties.
Waterval tussen rotsen
Object type: print
Date: 1800 – 1844
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: waterfall
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Dorpsstraat te Leersum
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: jan de beijer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1703 – 1780
Subjects: prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
Cartouche van een kaart van eilanden in de Middellandse Zee
Object type: print
Date: 1584 – 1584
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament, ornament ~ cartouche

Rechthoekige cartouche met rolwerk. De cartouche is een fragment van een kaart van de eilanden in de Middellandse Zee, waaronder Cyprus. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Ikari-Kazuki, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: tsukioka kogyo
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1869 – 1927
Doopluur van zijde geborduurd met floraal strooimotief, gewatteerd met geweven wol en gevoerd met effen zijde
Object type: doopluur
Date: 1675 – 1700
Materials: silk, wool
Techniques: embroidered, stitching, weave
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: netherlands

Doopluur van zijde geborduurd met floraal strooimotief, gewatteerd met geweven wol en gevoerd met effen zijde. Model: rechthoekig om met een overslag dicht te vouwen en voorzien van twee gefestonneerde splitten waar een lint ter sluiting doorheen getrokken werd. . Versiering: de effen buitenkant is versierd met een verspringend strooimotief van twee afwendende bloemen gestikt. Het quilt- of stikwerk is alleen door de zijden buitenkant en de geweven wollen vulling gestoken. De voering is geheel onversierd. Het oorspronkelijke lint ontbreekt.
Seated Man with a Bowl and a Spoon in his Lap
Object type: drawing
Date: 1662 – 1662
Materials: chalk, paint, paper
Techniques: drawing
Artist: cornelis saftleven
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1607 – 1681
Subjects: sitting figure
Glass finger ring
Object type: ring
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent honey yellow. Circular hoop and cross section made from a straight rod and bent into ring so that ends meet at bezel, which has been tooled flat. Top of bezel shaped into a semicircular projecting blob, imitating a gem. Intact; dulling, slight pitting and weathering. Amber yellow ring with bead in bezel.
Ring with Green Stone in Circular Setting
Object type: ring
Materials: gold, stone
Culture: indonesian, javanese
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Object type: drawing
Date: 1886 – 1888
Materials: pastel, paper
Artist: edgar degas
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1834 – 1917
Subjects: women,female nudes
The Annunciation from the Hours of Charles of France
Object type: book of hour
Date: 1465 – 1465
Materials: gold, ink, parchment, paint
Culture: french
Location: france
Artist: master of charles of france
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1425 – 1550
Subjects: interiors,angels,virgin mary,annunciation

This double-paged Annunciation forms a diptych of remarkable refinement, set on an elaborate stage of simulated architecture and sculpture, and incorporating a procession of angels descending from heaven. It comes from an unfinished book of hours that belonged to Charles, duke of Normandy and brother of King Louis XI. Charles’ favorite residence, the Château de Mehun-sur-Yèvre, near Bourges, appears in the background. At some point before 1905, this image was separated from the rest of the manuscript, which is in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris.
Shabti of Amenhotep III
Object type: shabti, amenhotep iii
Date: 1390 – 1352
Materials: wood, glass, pigment
Techniques: inlay
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs

This shabti is inscribed for Amenhotep III. The crown that once adorned the head of this shabti must have been made of another material. The eyes are inlaid with colored glass and the hieroglyphs are filled with yellow paste.
Papyrus column (wadj) amulet
Object type: amulet, papyrus column
Date: 664 – 332
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Amfitheater en Springenberg in Kleef
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1880 – 1940
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: cleves
Artist: wilhelm ballizany
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: garden, ornamental fountain
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Bad Cleve’
Man zit bij een schoenmaker
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1858 – 1863
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: shoe-maker, cobbler
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘2.50’, inscription: ‘No. 29’
Ojime
Object type: ojime
Date: 1801 – 1900
Culture: japanese
Subjects: birds
Angel Holding a Palm and a Crown
Object type: print
Date: 1764 – 1764
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Artist: jean-honoré fragonard
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1732 – 1806
Group of Figures by a River
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1620 – 1629
Materials: ink, ivory, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: italy
Artist: agostino tassi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1580 – 1644
Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 11 recto
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1875 – 1934
Materials: paper
Techniques: printmaking
Location: the hague
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934

Blad 10 verso uit schetsboek XXI met 19 bladen.
Door tweedracht saamverbonden
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1887
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Subjects: amsterdam, politician

Spotprent over de grondwetsherziening. Minister Heemskerk met het pasgeboren kind. Plaat verschenen bij het weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, nr. 41, 1887.
Adoration of the Shepherds
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: engraving, pen
Location: france
Artist: pierre-françois basan
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1723 – 1797
Inscriptions: Printed lower left, below image: "P P Rubens inv."; lower right: "F. Basan excudit"
Italiaans landschap met twee figuren op een rots en een klooster op de achtergrond
Object type: print
Date: 1817 – 1888
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: joseph meganck
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1807 – 1891
Subjects: abbey, monastery, convent ~ roman catholic church, landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage), rocks
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘3 etat’
Rijksdaalder van het Koninkrijk Holland, 1808
Object type: coin
Date: 1808 – 1808
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: utrecht

Bronzen munt. Voorzijde: zes-regelig opschrift met naam Salneuve. Keerzijde: zes-regelig opschrift, waaronder jaartal. Randschrift. Proefslag in brons ter grootte van rijksdaalder met randschrift volgens het systeem van Salneuve.
Gipsmodellen voor beeldhouwwerken op het Palais du Louvre: links "Descartes" door Gabriel Joseph Garraud en rechts "Paré" door Michel-Pascal
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1857
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: paris
Artist: édouard denis baldus
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1813 – 1889
Subjects: rené descartes, piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture, permanent exhibition, museum, paris, tuileries palace
Inscriptions: number: ‘41 en S’

Onderdeel van Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre 1852-1857, album 2.
Rijtuig met koetsier
Object type: drawing
Date: 1873 – 1903
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: brussels
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach
Inscriptions: workshop stamp: Lugt 291d, signature: ‘G H Breitner’
Carolus Quintus Imprator[sic!] Caesar Augustus
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1611 – 1663
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: christoffel van sichem (i)
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1546 – 1624
Subjects: ghent, charles v (holy roman emperor and king of spain)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van keizer Karel V, met kroon en rijk geborduurde, met bont gevoerde mantel. In de ene hand houdt hij een groot zwaard, in de andere een rijksappel. Hij staat naast een voetstuk, waarop de helm van zijn harnas ligt. Het voetstuk is gedecoreerd met zijn wapenschild. De achtergrond biedt zicht op zee, met schepen en een dolfijn. In de linkerbovenhoek: fol: 16.
The Great Eastern Under Weigh, July 23rd, 1865: Escort and other Ships, H.M.S. Terrible, H.M.S. Sphinx, The Hawk and Revised: The Caroline
Object type: drawing
Date: 1865 – 1866
Materials: gouache, graphite, watercolor
Artist: robert charles dudley
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1826 – 1909
Subjects: ships,transatlantic cable

One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. Dudley documented the long, arduous process in a series of watercolors and oils, here showing the Great Eastern moving west in 1865, the cable extending from its stern. As the world's largest ship when launched in 1858, the vessel was converted in 1865 to serve the project. In 1892 Field donated art works by Dudley, commemorative medals, memorabilia, and specimens of cable to the Museum.
Fragment of a Bowl with Double Molded Rim
Object type: decorative art
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: ceramic
Culture: byzantine
Location: istanbul