deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Christus geneest een bezeten man in de synagoge
Object type: print
Date: 1728 – 1728
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: healing of a possessed man in a synagogue (mark 1:23-28; luke 4:33-37)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘utrechts Fundatie huijs’

Christus beveelt een onreine geest te vertrekken uit een bezeten man. De onreine geest doet de man stuiptrekken en verlaat hem (Mar. 1:23). De prent heeft een Grieks, Latijns, Frans, Engels, Duits en Nederlands onderschrift.
Barrel for a mechanical organ
Object type: mechanical instrument
Date: 1815 – 1825
Materials: metal, wood
Artist: harmanus dolman
Artist role: musical instrument maker
Artist dates: 1787 – 1852

Cilinder voor een mechanisch orgel. 10 segmenten en 3 schroeven in messing plaat. Op de rol een handgeschreven tekst: Menuetto par Mozart en Variationes par Muller.
Gezicht op Huis Zwanenburg aan de Halfweg
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1850
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage, pond, pool
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘84 143’ Lugt 1641b, inscription: ‘Het Huis Swanenburg te Halfweg.’, inscription: ‘Het Huis Zwanenburg te Halfweg’

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Halfweg (Houtrijk en Polanen).
Spouted jug with raised concentric circles
Object type: jug
Date: 2700 – 2400
Materials: ceramic
Location: northwestern anatolia
Small Elbow Reinforce
Object type: small elbow reinforce
Materials: steel
Culture: italian
Location: italy

This small elbow reinforce is part of an unusually large armor garniture (acc. no. 27.159.1) from the armory of the Dos Aguas family in Valencia, Spain. The garniture contains pieces for use in battle and for the tilt in both the Italian and German fashions. The tilt was a tournament fought on horseback between two opponents armed with lances and separated by a lengthwise barrier. The armor as mounted is equipped with a helmet and vambraces (arm defenses) for the tournament. The buffe (chin defense), second breastplate (27.159.2), and manifer (reinforced left gauntlet) (27.159.6) would have been added to make the armor ready for exchange pieces for different forms of the tournament. For the German tilt, the trellised targe (shield) (27.159.7), small elbow defense (27.159.5), and small stomach defense (27.159.3) were added. For the Italian tilt, these elements were replaced by the form-fitting reinforce covering the left half of the torso and left shoulder (mezzo sovrapetto) (27.159.2) and the larger elbow defense (soprabracciale) (27.159.4). The garniture also includes two complete sets of saddle steels (27.159.13, .14) (only one is exhibited) and two vamplates (conical hand defenses affixed to the lance) (27.159.8, .9). The decoration consisting of etched bands containing trophies of arms and musical instruments was a popular design found in many variations in Italy throughout the second half of the sixteenth century.
Pouch
Object type: pouch
Date: 1830 – 1860
Materials: glass, linen, silk
Culture: american

Although in fragile condition, this bag has retained its original silk top and drawstring. The beadwork pattern is color blocked rather than shaded, as are similar bags, which gives it a folkloric character. Margaret S. Bedell (1861-1932) donated, by gift or bequest, over 500 objects to the Brooklyn Museum, including furniture, quilts, samplers, costume and Native American beadwork. Her collection of American and European beaded bags includes examples from Philadelphia and the Catskill Mountain region of New York State, as well as Italy, Austria, Germany, and Holland.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, arms and part of upper torso of an aulos player wearing a chiton
Bowl with Face
Object type: bowl
Date: 500 – 301
Materials: ceramic
Culture: chavin
Location: peru
Subjects: faces
Mr. Pieter Jelles Troelstra
Object type: plaque
Date: 1926 – 1926
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: apeldoorn
Artist: johannes cornelis wienecke
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1872 – 1945
Subjects: politician, netherlands

Eenzijdige bronzen plaquette met aan de achterzijde een standaard. Voorzijde: portret van man (P.J. Troelstra) in profiel naar links.
Flower Vase with Stamped Design of Lotus
Object type: flower vase
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: earthenware, glaze, iron
Culture: japanese
Subjects: flowers
Fragments
Object type: fragment
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: silk
Federal soldier
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1910
Materials: metal
Techniques: engraving
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: soldiers,men
Clump of Trees
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: graphite, paper
Location: england
Artist: attributed to james duffield harding
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1798 – 1863
Portret van een onbekende jongen
Object type: page
Date: 1898 – 1903
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: berlin
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘BX’
Saint Joseph at left and a bishop at right standing before the altar of the Virgin and Christ Child
Object type: print
Date: 1515 – 1527
Techniques: engraving
Artist: marco dente
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1515 – 1527
Subjects: altars,men,madonna and child,saint joseph
Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)
Object type: religious ritual object
Materials: linen, paper, silk
Techniques: cutting, gilding, weave
Location: japan
Saucer
Object type: saucer
Date: 1644 – 1911
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: painting, underglaze
Culture: chinese
Subjects: peacocks
Allegory on the Dutch Raid on the Medway (1667), with a Portrait of Cornelis de Witt
Object type: painting
Date: 1668 – 1668
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: cornelis bisschop
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1630 – 1674
Subjects: flushing, michiel adriaenszoon de ruyter, cornelis de witt, the hague, politician, johan de witt, water-birds: swan, historical persons, victory, 'historia'; 'historia' (ripa), raid on the medway
Inscriptions: signature and date: ‘C. Bischop Fecit 1668’, inscription: ‘Concordia ... Res Parvae Crescunt’

Allegorie op de Tocht naar Chatham in 1667 met een portret van Cornelis de Witt. Het ovale portret omgeven door symbolen van de Vrede, Rechtvaardigheid (geblinddoekt kind met weegschalen), Vrijheid (lans met vrijheidshoed) en Eendracht (tekst op het banier). Verder ook geldstukken, twee witte zwanen, een leeuw, een schild en verschillende wapens.
Tafel met trekbladen; eiken-  met ebbenhout
Object type: table
Date: 1640 – 1660
Materials: wood
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Tafel van eikenhout, versierd met ebbenhout. Het meubel heeft poten die dikke peervormige geledingen met huizen vertonen en door een dubbel Y-vormig kruis verbonden zijn. De regels hebben een gedraaide ebbenhouten druiper. Op de huizen van de poten, de steunstukken en in het blad zijn ebben banden aangebracht. De tafel heeft twee trekbladen en ledikantschroeven boven aan de poten en aan het kruis.
Portret van Willem Mengelberg
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1895 – 1970
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: utrecht, historical persons, conductor ~ music
Card Number 142, Miss Trowbridge, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-2), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the second subset, N145-2. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Abduction of a Sabine
Object type: statuette group
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: bronze
Artist: giambologna
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1529 – 1608
Subjects: male nudes,female nudes
Transverse Flute
Object type: transverse flute
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: bamboo
Culture: african
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 534 – 468
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, part of a seated, draped figure to right?
Cantonnière met draperieën, palmbomen en bloemguirlandes
Object type: cantonnière
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: silk, wool
Techniques: tapestry
Location: beauvais

Cantonnière met gordijn- en palmmotieven.
Jennie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.
Hat
Object type: hat
Date: 1830 – 1839
Materials: fiber
Culture: american or european
Seated actress wearing military-inspired costume, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actresses" series (N664), issued 1888-90 to promote Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco.
Bottle
Object type: bottle
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: glass, silver
Techniques: glassblowing, tooling
Location: iran
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français, 1780, 203 : Chapeau de Gaz (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: flowers, ear-rings (+ women's clothes), border, ribbon, braid (+ women's clothes), lace (+ women's clothes), head-gear (straw hat) (+ women's clothes), styles of hairdress - aa - ~ women, fashion plates, necklace (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: address: ‘A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques a la ville de Coutances. A.P.D.R.’, inscription: ‘Chapeau de Gaze bordé de blonde et ceint d'une guirlande de fleurs sur une frisure demi négligé’, inscription: ‘Coefure sans toque un Chapeau de paille grand et rabatu surmonté d'une Couronne de plumes droites dont le pied est ceint d'un ruban a plusieurs noeuds.’, inscription: ‘Chapeau a la mode semblable a peu-près Chapeau dit a la Spa.’, inscription: ‘La meme vue de profil un ruban en place de fleurs’

Vier dameskapsels met verschillende hoofddeksels, verdeeld in ovalen. Linksboven: hoed van gaas afgezet met blonde (kloskant) en bloemenguirlande, gedragen op een kapsel 'demi négligé'. Rechtsboven: hoed volgens de laatste mode vergelijkbaar met de hoed genaamd 'a la Spa'. Linksonder: hoed versierd met lint in plaats van bloemen. Rechtsonder: 'coeffure' zonder 'toque' en een grote strohoed met bovenop pluimen en rondom een lint met strikken. Prent uit de serie 34e Cahier de Costumes Français, 8e Suite de Coeffures à la mode en 1780, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
The Lake of Zug
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: etching, mezzotint
Artist: john ruskin
Artist role: etcher
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1819 – 1900

When John Ruskin owned Turner's watercolor of the Lake of Zug (now at the Metropolitan Museum), he etched the subject in outline around 1856, with mezzotint then added by Lupton. The resulting print was used to illustrate Ruskin's Modern Painters, 1888, vol. V, pl. 87 (and Works, vol. VII, p. 439, pl. 87).
Cup
Object type: cup
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: porcelain
Culture: japanese
Cup plate
Object type: cup plate
Date: 1825 – 1860
Materials: glass
Techniques: pressed
Location: united states
Haardsteen met voorstelling van twee klimmende leeuw
Object type: hearthstone
Date: 1600 – 1625
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: printing, firing
Location: southern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Haardsteen met voorstelling van twee naar elkaar toegewende leeuwen, geplaatst in geprofileerde ruit. De halve ruiten aan de boven- en onderkant zijn opgevuld met halve medaillons met pijlmotief.
Een zeeslag tussen Japanse zeerovers en Chinezen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: ink, paper
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Eén van een serie van zeven schilderingen die samen de wonderen van Mazu voorstellen.
Gezicht op de Grote of Maria Magdalenakerk te Goes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: goes
Artist: anoniem (monumentenzorg)
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: church (exterior)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘N.H., Groote of Maria Magdalena kerk, zuid oost aanzicht van het koor/ Mei 1900/ Goes’, annotation: ‘Groote of St. Magdalenakerk te Goes (Z.)/ Zuid-oost aanzicht van het koor/ Mei 1900’
Cuneiform cylinder: Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus describing his work on three temples
Object type: cuneiform cylinder
Date: 555 – 539
Materials: clay
Culture: babylonian
Location: mesopotamia
La Nuit (Night)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1723 – 1769
Materials: board, gouache, paper
Artist: pierre antoine baudouin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1723 – 1769
Subjects: couples,men,lovers,women,putti,night
Schets van een meisje, ten halven lijve
Object type: drawing
Date: 1887 – 1887
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: francesco jerace
Artist role: draughtsman, sculptor
Artist dates: 1854 – 1937
Subjects: girl (child between toddler and youth), standing figure - aa - female human figure
Inscriptions: date
Piece
Object type: piece
Materials: silk
Culture: japanese
Vijf porseleinen scherven van een theekop, gevonden bij V.O.C.-schip Witte Leeuw, mogelijk afkomstig van Zeelelie
Object type: tea cup
Date: 1750 – 1799
Materials: porcelain
Artist: Anonymous

Vijf porseleinen scherven van een kop of beker, de bodem bestaat uit twee aan elkaar gelijmde fragmenten, gevonden bij V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'. Dit object is 18e-eeuws en kan dus niet van de vracht van de Witte Leeuw zijn. Onduidelijk is of het object van de site komt of dat het later is vermengd, mogelijk met materiaal van de Zeelelie.
Prenten-magazijn voor de jeugd
Object type: popular print
Date: 1843 – 1843
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: netherlands
Subjects: lifebelt, life-buoy, dikes, levee, fire-hose, street lighting, invention, discovery ~ science and technology
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 4 voorstellingen van Nederlandse uitvindingen en ontdekkingen: de straatlantaarn, de slangbrandspuit, stenen glooiingen aan de zeedijken en de scaphander (zwemgordel). Boven elke voorstelling een titel en onder elke voorstelling een onderschrift. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 22
Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing, 29-31 december 1908
Object type: invitation
Date: 1908 – 1912
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: utrecht
Subjects: print maker, rotterdam, dirk gerard ezerman, painter, draughtsman, bernardus arps, criticizing and discussing art, art criticism, circle, club of artists, collecting and exhibiting products of the fine arts, water course
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Waterlandschap. Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing op 29-31 december 1908 van de portefeuille van de kunstschilders Bertha Valkenburg, B. Arps en D.G. Ezerman.
Buste van een jonge vrouw in Brabantse klederdracht
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: north brabant
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, folk costume, regional costume

Pagina 47 uit een schetsboek met 30 bladen.
Piece
Object type: do not use this record duplicate of 09. 13. 18a d
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: silk
Techniques: weave
Culture: chinese
Paardenrenbaan
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: unknown
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: race-track
Polysiphonia violacea
Object type: page
Date: 1843 – 1853
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: cyanotype
Location: united kingdom
Artist: anna atkins
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1799 – 1871
Subjects: algae, seaweed
Lint op rol, lila gaaslint met twee rijen schulpen
Object type: braid
Date: 1890 – 1935
Materials: cardboard, paper, textile
Techniques: weave
Location: nijmegen
Inscriptions: number: ‘Pon 06784’

Lint op rol, lila gaaslint met twee rijen schulpen.
Terracotta plate
Object type: plate
Date: 510 – 510
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Amazon carrying dead comrade, with this inscription: Melo is fair. Karone is fair. the boy is fair. The weight of the wounded or dead Amazon is beautifully conveyed by the lowered spears and shield carried by her companion.
Gezicht op een panoramafoto van Napels
Object type: page
Date: 1898 – 1903
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Subjects: prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city - ii - ideal city, picture within picture
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Abb. 1’, monogram: ‘BX’
Tomb figure of a squatting woman
Object type: figure
Date: 220 – 589
Materials: earthenware, paint
Techniques: firing, turning
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Squatting woman. Tomb figure. China, Northern and Southern Dynasties (265- 589), second half of the 5th - first half of the 6th century. Earthenware with polychromy. On loan from R. Flaes.
English Noblewoman
Object type: print
Date: 1649 – 1649
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: bohemia
Artist: wenceslaus hollar
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: bohemian
Artist dates: 1607 – 1677
Portret van Willem V
Object type: portretmedaillon
Date: 1757 – 1757
Materials: mother of pearl
Location: amsterdam
Artist: johannes christiaan konsé
Artist role: jeweler
Artist dates: 1700 – 
Subjects: the hague, william v (prince of orange)
Inscriptions: date

Een portret van Prins Willem V als kind van negen jaar. Medaillon in parelmoer. Randschrift: WILLEM V, PRINS ....Op de achterkant J.C.Konse fec 1757. Pendant van BK-NM-250.
Celia Gargollo, aan dek
Object type: photograph
Date: 1908 – 1912
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: photography
Subjects: costa rica
Inscriptions: date

Portret van Celia Gargollo, aan dek van het schip de S.S. Heredia, op zee in de omgeving van San José in Costa Rica, augustus 1912. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum van de familie Boom-Gonggrijp in Suriname en Curaçao.
Jug
Object type: jug
Materials: stoneware
Techniques: salt glaze
Standard with two long-horned bulls
Object type: standard
Date: 2300 – 2000
Materials: copper alloy
Culture: hattian
Location: central anatolia
Subjects: bulls
Luitspeler spelend van bladmuziek
Object type: print
Date: 1866 – 1928
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: willem steelink (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1856 – 1928
Subjects: lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Lindlithgow Castle
Object type: photograph
Date: 1843 – 1847
Techniques: paper negative, salted paper print
Artist: hill and adamson
Artist role: photography studio
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Artist dates: 1843 – 1848
Subjects: architecture,castles
Spotprent over twee kwakzalvers in de politiek, 1885
Object type: print
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands

Spotprent over twee kwakzalvers in de Nederlandse politiek. Plaat verschenen bij het weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, nr. 23, 1885.
Vase
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: ceramic, jasper, stoneware
Location: burslem
Artist: wedgwood manufactory
Artist nationality: england
Artist dates: 1759 – 
Inscriptions: Mark: "WEDGWOOD" impressed
Canailje t Canael uyt. Matroos in sijn bouw, de Rotsack in Rouw, De Verraders gevangen, gereet om te hangen. Den 29. 30. en 31 Mey, en Juny Anno 1692
Object type: print
Date: 1692 – 1692
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, letterpress printing
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: political caricatures and satires

Spotprent op de verbranden van de Franse schepen door de Nederlanders en Engelsen na de overwinning in de slag bij Kaap la Hogue in het Kanaal, 29 mei t/m 3 juni 1692. De Hollandse Matroos met bezem en mes, aan zijn voeten een knielende smekende Fransman. Rechts dreigt een Engelsman een Jacobiet met een hakbijl. Met onderschrift in twee kolommen en enkele toelichtingen in het Frans.
Twee vrouwen aan het strand, omringd door strandspullen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1934 – 1934
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: beach (as place of recreation), adult woman, parasol, sunshade

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum met opnames van vakanties in Zuid-Frankrijk.
Shawl of Joined Fragments
Object type: shawl of joined fragment
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: wool
Techniques: interlocking, weave
Location: india
Portret van Hendrik II, koning van Frankrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: paris, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Design for a Ceiling, an Oblong with an Oval Center
Object type: drawing
Date: 1743 – 1796
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: sir william chambers
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, born sweden
Artist dates: 1723 – 1796
Subjects: architecture,ceilings
Ribbon
Object type: ribbon
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: metal thread, silk
Ongelovige Tomas
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1610 – 1620
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: the hague
Subjects: thomas touching or stretching out his hands to touch the wound in christ's side, sometimes christ leading thomas' hand

De discipel Tomas voelt aan de zijdewond van Christus, omringd door de andere discipelen. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Maria met dode lichaam van Christus op schoot, zittend onder het kruis
Object type: print
Date: 1639 – 1639
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: 'pietà ', 'vesperbild', 'marienklage' (no others present): christ, either with or without crown of thorns, mourned by mary
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Maria met dode lichaam van Christus op schoot, zittend onder het kruis. In de marge onder een vers in zes regels Latijn.
309. Ochart. Alphonse. 37 ans, né le 24/1/56 à Asbruch (Nord). Fabricant de chaussures. Anarchiste. 22/1/94.
Object type: mugshot
Date: 1894 – 1894
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: alphonse bertillon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1853 – 1914
Subjects: men,portraits

Born into a distinguished family of scientists and statisticians, Bertillon began his career as a clerk in the Identification Bureau of the Paris Prefecture of Police in 1879. Tasked with maintaining reliable police records of offenders, he developed the first modern system of police identification. The system, which became known as Bertillonage, had three components: anthropometric measurement, precise verbal description of the prisoner’s physical characteristics, and standardized photographs of the face. In the early 1890s Paris was subject to a wave of bombings and assassination attempts carried out by anarchist proponents of "propaganda of the deed." One of Bertillon’s greatest successes came in March 1892, when his system of identification led to the arrest of an anarchist bomber who went by the name Ravachol (2005.100.375.348). The publicity surrounding the case earned Bertillon the Legion of Honor and encouraged police departments around the world to adopt his anthropometric system.