deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portret van Theodobertus I, koning van Oostenrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1569 – 1569
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Subjects: historical persons, ruler, sovereign
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een reeks van 58 prenten. Het meerendeel van de prenten bevat portretten van 74 leden van het Oostenrijkse Huis, naar tekeningen door Francesco Terzio, die deels getekend zijn naar de 28 levensgrote bronzen beelden die rond de cenotaaf van Maximiliaan I in de Hofkirche te Innsbruck staan.
Portret van Bernhard, hertog van Saksen-Weimar
Object type: print
Date: 1657 – 1720
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van Willem I Frederik, koning der Nederlanden
Object type: print
Date: 1813 – 1815
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: the hague, william i of the netherlands

De hier vermelde titel verwijst naar de hoogst verkregen titel van de geportretteerde, niet per se naar de titel die de geportretteerde op deze voorstelling draagt.
Section of villi of duodenum
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1889 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: london
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: intestines, bones in general (human body)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘x 50. x 100.’
't Dorp Etten in de Barony van Breda. 1732
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1746 – 1746
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrik spilman
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1721 – 1784
Subjects: church (exterior), ruin of church, monastery, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Gezicht op de ruïne van een kerk in het dorp Etten, omstreeks 1732. Afgesneden bovenste deel van een plaat met twee voorstellingen. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Kerk en kerkwezen & Armwezen en liefdadige instellingen; Kerkgebouwen elders. A-E.
Bead with pomegranate
Object type: bead with pomegranate
Date: 7000 – 330
Materials: gold
Subjects: pomegranates
Christus en de gepersonifieerde ziel aanschouwen de opkomende zon
Object type: print
Date: 1714 – 1714
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan luyken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1712
Subjects: sunrise, christ and the soul
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Proefdruk van illustratie uit: Luyken, Jan. Jezus en de Ziel, 3 delen. Amsterdam: Wed. Pieter Arentsz II en Cornelis van der Sys, 1714, dl. I, p. 47.
Portret van Carolina, prinses van Oranje-Nassau
Object type: print
Date: 1755 – 1755
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: carolina (prinses van oranje-nassau)
Inscriptions: date

De hier vermelde titel verwijst naar de hoogst verkregen titel van de geportretteerde, niet per se naar de titel die de geportretteerde op deze voorstelling draagt.
Cloisters of St. Paul's beyond the Wall. Rome. Italy.
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1870 – 1910
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: sint-paulus buiten de muren
Subjects: cloisters ~ monastery, sculpture
Inscriptions: number: ‘14880’, number: ‘1960’, name: ‘Sold only by Griffith & Griffith Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Hamburg, Ger. Milan, Italy.’
Glass plaque with sphinx
Object type: plaque of sphinx
Date: 1 – 100
Materials: glass
Culture: roman
Subjects: sphinx

Opaque light blue, backed with opaque light blue streaked with opaque white. Rectangular slightly concave plaque, with major axis horizontal; beveled edges, grozed at back; flat underside. Decoration in relief: seated winged sphinx in profile facing right, wearing diadem on head, with long wing extending over back and curling up at tip and long curling tail. On back, undecorated layer of light blue with irregular vertical white stripes. Intact; some pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, and thick creamy brown weathering. Made in the same mold as 81.10.155 and 17.194.563.
Tile
Object type: tile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Subjects: firearms,men
Figuren op een afgemeerde tweemaster
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1797 – 1838
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: johannes christiaan schotel
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1787 – 1838
Subjects: crew ~ ship, sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Blad 7 verso en 8 recto uit een schetsboek met 44 bladen.
Ontwerp voor reclame van Nutrix beschuit
Object type: design
Date: 1876 – 1924
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: gerrit willem dijsselhof
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1924
Subjects: advertising, (other) historical names

Ontwerp voor reclame van Nutrix beschuit `De holle bolle wagen': een kerk vol schapen, een schuit vol rapen.
Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 15r)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1598 – 1598
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: bernhard jobin
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: swiss
Artist dates: 1535 – 1597
Subjects: griffins

Published by Bernhard Jobin, Strassburg. Facsimile illustrated title page of 1579 edition, poem (2 pages), and 44 pages of designs.
Vase
Object type: vase
Date: 1897 – 1900
Materials: earthenware
Location: united states
Artist: george e. ohr
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1857 – 1918

George Ohr of Biloxi, Mississippi, was arguably America’s quintessential art potter. He built his own kiln, dug his clay, threw his vessels with extreme proficiency on the potter’s wheel to wafer thinness, altered those shapes, and then covered them with his own novel glazes. In form and decoration they are essentially Abstract Expressionist objects—almost 50 years before that movement was founded. In fact, deemed ultimately very modern in this century, they had great appeal to such modern artists as Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, who formed collections of them. Ohr’s work is extraordinarily idiosyncratic and he practiced his own mantra of "no two alike," as exemplified by these works. Ohr was a colorful character, and his quirky pottery became one of the added tourist attractions on Mississippi’s gulf coast. Self-proclaimed the "Greatest Art Potter on Earth," he was well ahead of his time, and the vases that he deemed "worth their weight in gold" would not command such prices until a few decades ago. Barely ten years after he began making such vases, Ohr closed his pottery, and packed up his pots, literally not to be discovered for another 50 years. Both of these vases came virtually straight from the artist’s cache, and were purchased by Martin Eidelberg, the donor, when the rediscovery of art pottery was in its infancy in the early 1970s.
Genève. Le Théâtre
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1918
Materials: cardboard, photographic process
Location: geneva
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: buildings for performances, square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Portret van Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Object type: print
Date: 1826 – 1826
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: hamburg
Subjects: draughtsman, johann wolfgang von goethe, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, check stamp: ‘I.M.C.’

Onder het portret een facsimile van de handtekening van de geportretteerde.
Toren van de Grote of Sint-Bavokerk te Haarlem
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: haarlem
Subjects: church (exterior), tower (of house or building)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Torentje op de kerk van de N.H. Gemeente, April 1890/ Haarlem’, annotation: ‘Torentje op de Kerk v/d N.H. gemeente te Haarlem/ April 1890’
Seated Female Figure with Upraised Arms, Facing Right
Object type: drawing
Date: 1434 – 1466
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen
Culture: italian
Artist: veronese school
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1430 – 1469
Subjects: women

The very fine, regular hatching and delicate, soft modeling in this drawing differ from the style of Stefano da Verona. Endowing the figure with a classicizing and sculptural quality, the artist, an unknown Veronese draftsman of the mid-fifteenth century, was particularly concerned with the twisting folds of drapery around the figure. The lack of attributes and setting make it difficult to determine her identity or the intended context. The figure may represent a Virtue such as Hope, who is often portrayed with upraised arms, or a Sibyl.
Four carnival musicians
Object type: group
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Artist: zurich pottery and porcelain factory
Artist role: factory
Artist nationality: swiss
Artist dates: 1763 – 9999
Subjects: musical instruments,men,musicians
Eureka Quartz Mill and Flume, Nevada
Object type: photograph
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: carleton e. watkins
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1829 – 1916
Subjects: railways,mountains,landscapes
Brocade Textile
Object type: textile
Date: 1401 – 1500
Materials: linen, metal thread, silk
Culture: german
Location: germany
Twaalf Romeinse keizers
Object type: print
Date: 1646 – 1646
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: rome, miseno, germany, (story of) c. julius caesar, (story of) augustus, the roman emperor
Inscriptions: number: ‘213’

Consoles met de eerste vier keizers van het Romeinse Rijk. Afgebeeld ten voeten uit: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius en Caligula. De tekst in de cartouches daaronder zijn versregels uit de Monosticha de Ordine Imperatorum van de Latijns dichter Decimus Magnus Ausonius. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van de Venetiaanse astroloog Thomas de Thomasi
Object type: print
Date: 1600 – 1650
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: augsburg
Subjects: thomas de thomasi
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Ontwerp voor een glasraam met blanco wapenschilden en putti
Object type: drawing
Date: 1630 – 1672
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: pieter jansz
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1602 – 1672
Subjects: fortitude, 'fortitudo' ~ one of the four cardinal virtues, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ province; provincial)

Ontwerp voor een glasraam met in het midden een wapenschild met een klimmende leeuw, geflankeerd door twee putti met elk twee blanco wapenschilden. Bovenaan een allegorische figuur, voorstellende een vrouw met een pijlenbundel en een schaap, omringd door putti.
Beaker
Object type: beaker
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Subjects: flowers

The gift of the Hans Syz Collection in 1995 endowed the Museum with nearly three hundred examples of European and Asian ceramics meticulously acquired by Swiss-born collector Dr. Syz (1894–1991) to chart the migration of models and patterns from East to West. Documenting a continuous process of influence and adaptation, these pieces provide a discriminating review of the nuances of stylistic change resulting from three centuries of trade.
Allegorie op de Oost- en West-Indische Maatschappij
Object type: print
Date: 1705 – 1707
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: romeyn de hooghe
Artist role: draughtsman, goldsmith, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1645 – 1708
Subjects: justice, 'justitia'; 'giustitia divina' (ripa) ~ one of the four cardinal virtues

Illustratie voor: R. de Hooghe, Spiegel van Staat, Vervattende de Macht der Generaliteyts, J. ten Hoorn, Amsterdam 1707, dl. II, vijfde tafereel, p. 1.
Delft
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1931
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: willem adrianus grondhout
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1878 – 1934
Subjects: harbour, canals, waters (in city), enkhuizen

De Oude Haven van Enkhuizen met de Leugenbrug en afgemeerde schepen. Links op de achtergrond de Drommedaris, de zuidelijke toegangspoort van de stad. Het stadsgezicht op de prent is een spiegelbeeldige weergave van de realiteit.
Mes met heft van ivoor
Object type: miniature
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: iron, ivory
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Mes, recht lemmet van zeer plat gesmeed ijzer, eindigend in driehoekige punt, heft van ivoor.
Huizen aan het water bij Antwerpen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1845 – 1845
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: antwerp
Artist: johannes tavenraat
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1809 – 1881
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone), antwerp
Inscriptions: date and inscription: ‘bij Antwerpen - 1845-’

Blad 23 recto uit een schetsboek met 44 bladen.
Cana de Galilée
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1868 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: cana
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: landscape with ruins
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘DB/ R’
Courant-ombrengers Kermis-Wensch (...) 1847
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jacob coldewijn
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1796 – 1855
Subjects: street, royal palace of amsterdam, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Kermisprent namens de ombrengers van couranten (krantenbezorgers) te Amsterdam, 13 september 1847. Bovenaan drie medaillons met centraal een gezicht op het Paleis op de Dam, links een zeilschip op het IJ, rechts de Nieuwmarkt met de Waag. Onderaan een gedicht in drie kolommen. Van de courantombrenger: J. Serquet.
Self-Portrait
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: juste chevillet
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1729 – 1790
[Nude Man Squatting on Chair]
Object type: ambrotype
Techniques: ambrotype
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: male nudes
Jocko Milligan, Catcher, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1887 – 1890
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.
Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 37 (recto)
Object type: album print ornament architecture
Date: 1615 – 1635
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, dutch, 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1600 – 1700
Subjects: peacocks,serpents,flowers,leaves
Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: théodore fourmois
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1814 – 1871
Subjects: church (exterior), canals, waters (in city), boat propelled by man or animal
Inscriptions: : ‘Gedeponeerd’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent behoort mogelijk tot een serie met gezichten op Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Den Haag en Huis te Brederode. Desguerrois heeft hier midden jaren dertig opdracht voor gegeven aan onder meer Lauters, Fourmois en Clerman.
Shoulder-Length, Curled, and Powdered Allonge Wig
Object type: peruke
Date: 1700 – 1720
Materials: hair, linen, fiber
Techniques: knotting
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

For many decades from the late 17th century on, it was fashionable for men of the elite to wear a wig to always show a full head of hair regardless of age. This wig is a rare and early example, with high fronts and cascading curls at the sides and back. The wig’s owner would have had it powdered almost entirely white before going out.
Studie naar een model in wijde mantel
Object type: drawing
Date: 1590 – 1610
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: matteo rosselli
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1578 – 1651
Subjects: standing figure, drapery, draped garment, 'gewandgebung'
Dood van Absalom
Object type: print
Date: 1708 – 1708
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: joab stabs absalom with three spears
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Proefdruk van een prent welke is opgenomen als illustratie in: Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti. Christoph Weigel, 1708.
Aanbidding der koningen
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1517 – 1517
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Subjects: adoration of the kings: the wise men present their gifts to the christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent mogelijk afkomstig uit: Evangelia mit vslegung. Straatsburg: Johann Grüninger, 1517.
Cupid Tied to a Tree
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1570 – 1599
Materials: chalk, ink, ivory, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: italy
Artist: attributed to giorgio picchi
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1560 – 1605
Paix rendue à l'Europe
Object type: print
Date: 1763 – 1763
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: france
Subjects: symbols, allegories of peace, 'pax'; 'pace' (ripa)
Inscriptions: date

Verscheidene allegorische figuren, met links de Vrede, overhandigen elkaar olijftakken bovenaan een trap voor een tempel. Boven hen vliegt een engel en om hen heen staan soldaten. Achter de Vrede, schuilt de Oorlog.
Spiegel- of schilderijlijst van verguld notenhout met gesneden versiering van eikentakken, bloemen, een adelaar en drie putti.
Object type: frame
Date: 1650 – 1674
Materials: gold leaf, wood
Techniques: cutting, gilding
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: label: ‘oud oranje rijkmuseum etiket’

Spiegel- of schilderijlijst van verguld notenhout met rijk gesneden versiering van eikentakken, bloemen, middenboven een adelaar en aan drie zijden een putto. De lijst is koud op elkaar gemonteerd. De zool heeft één ophangoog voor horizontale ophang. De conditie van de lijst is goed: wel zijn enkel delen van de overkragende ornamentiek afgebroken.
Stuiver van Negapatnam voor Ceylon
Object type: coin
Date: 1695 – 1695
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking
Location: negapatnam

Koperen munt. Voorzijde: verbasterde menselijke figuur (Kali). Boven de linkerschouder twee cirkels schuin boven elkaar. Keerzijde: tweeregelig opschrift in Tamil. Gladde rand.
Rustende ruiter voor een herberg
Object type: print
Date: 1834 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: adrien joseph verhoeven-ball
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1882
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, hotel, hostelry, inn
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 1485
Friesland, duit
Object type: coin
Date: 1600 – 1605
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking
Location: leeuwarden

Koperen munt. Voorzijde: gekroond ingebogen wapenschild van Friesland. Keerzijde: in een bladerkrans opschrift in twee regels.
Sites of the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Tōto shōkei ichiran), facsimile version by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Object type: illustrated book
Date: 1901 – 2000
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai 葛飾北斎
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Moresken en arabesken
Object type: print
Date: 1516 – 1571
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Moresken en arabesken in een motief dat één maal in het midden wordt weergegeven en zowel links als rechts daarvan nog eens voor de helft zichtbaar is.
Jar
Object type: jar
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: stonepaste
Techniques: painting, underglaze
Location: iran
Portret van Johann Gottlieb Thill
Object type: print
Date: 1678 – 1737
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
La botanique de la Bible : étude scientifique, historique, littéraire, exégétique des plantes mentionnées dans la Sainte-Écriture
Object type: book
Date: 1871 – 1871
Materials: cardboard, linen, paper
Techniques: albumen print, letterpress printing, moire
Location: nice
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘BIBLIOTHEEK/ RIJKSMUSEUM/ AMSTERDAM’
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 480 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, head, shoulders, and pectoral muscles of youth to right with a baldric?
Portret van meneer Mahommed Jumla
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: stippling
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, head-gear: turban, ruler, sovereign
Geschiedenis van Jeremia
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1585 – 1585
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: zedekiah is captured by the babylonians

Als koning Sedekia ’s nachts de stad uitvlucht in de richting van de Jordaanvallei wordt hij door het Chaldese leger op de vlakte van Jericho gevangen genomen. Onder de voorstelling een verwijzing in het Latijn naar de Bijbeltekst in Jer. 39. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
New Designs for Ornamenting and Embellishing Coaches and Carriages
Object type: print
Date: 1680 – 1701
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Panel
Object type: textile
Date: 1600 – 1650
Materials: cotton, velvet, wool
Techniques: cutting, weave, stamping
Location: netherlands
Subjects: fruit
Neckpiece
Object type: neckpiece
Date: 1801 – 1900
Techniques: lace
De Noorse gletsjer Svartisen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1807 – 1889
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: wilhelm ii (keizer van duitsland), norway
Inscriptions: number: ‘35’, number: ‘73’
Incense Box in Three Compartments
Object type: incense box
Date: 1834 – 1866
Materials: gold, lacquer
Culture: japanese
Subjects: trees
Miss Loïe Fuller
Object type: print
Date: 1893 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901
Portret van Ferdinand Amadée von Harsch
Object type: print
Date: 1713 – 1749
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Mas van de sultanah Inayat Shah van Atjeh, Sumatra
Object type: coin
Date: 1678 – 1688
Materials: gold
Techniques: striking
Location: aceh

Gouden munt. Voorzijde: drieregelig opschrift in Arabische lettertekens. Keerzijde: drieregelig opschrift in Arabische lettertekens.
Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Five black glazed rim fragments from kylikes; glaze worn
Barreyre. Alfred. 30 ans, né le 30/6/64 à Brassac (P. de Dôme). Gérant de restaurant. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.
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.