deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Teapot with cover
Object type: teapot with cover
Date: 1730 – 1735
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: meissen manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 – 9999
Subjects: musical instruments,men,women
The Turc Who Watches Fishing
Object type: print
Date: 1720 – 1760
Techniques: engraving
Artist: joseph vernet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1714 – 1789
Subjects: men,fishing
Exterieur van de Shiba-tempel in Tokyo
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1894
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: tokyo
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: temple, shrine ~ hinduism, buddhism, jainism

Onderdeel van Album met 69 foto's van een reis door Japan.
Poging om Amsterdam in te nemen, 1577
Object type: history print
Date: 1693 – 1693
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, letterpress printing
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam, haarlem, battle, city-gate

Huidige staat van prent gebruikt in: Commelin, Caspar. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt (…). 2 delen. 2e druk. Amsterdam: Andries van Damme, Johannes Ratelband, weduwe A. van Aaltwyk en Hermanus Uytwerf, 1726.

Eerdere staat van prent ook gebruikt in: Commelin, Caspar. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyse (…). 2 delen. Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, Gillis Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge II, weduwe Dirk Boom I, Hendrick Boom en Rembertus Goethals, 1693. En in: Commelin, Caspar. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt (…). 2 delen. Amsterdam: weduwe Aart Dircksz Oossaan, 1694.
Portret van een onbekende vrouw met een baby
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1895 – 1908
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: arnhem
Artist: e. v.d. kerkhoff
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1861 – 1943
Subjects: adult woman, infant, baby
Inscriptions: name: ‘Atelier E. v.d. Kerkhoff Arnhem Ridderstraat No. 27 (...)’
Studie
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1819 – 1849
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: willem hendrik schmidt
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1809 – 1849
Subjects: historical costume

Blad 30 verso uit een schetsboek met 60 bladen.
Men Roping a Bull and Driving Cattle, Tomb of Djari
Object type: facsimile, djari tt 366, bull roping, cattle
Date: 2050 – 2000
Materials: ink, paper
Location: egypt
Artist: unknown copyist
Artist role: artist
Subjects: men,bulls,cows
Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Four black glazed rim fragments from lipped kylikes
The Adoration of the Angels
Object type: print
Date: 1601 – 1700
Techniques: etching
Artist: carlo maratti
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1625 – 1713
Subjects: men,angels,madonna and child
Stapel van drie gevouwen en samengebonden servetten
Object type: napkin
Date: 1750 – 1800
Materials: cotton, linen
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Stapel van drie opgevouwen en met katoenen band samengebonden servetten, die ieder aan twee kanten gezoomd zijn.
Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Object type: bell krater fragment
Date: 450 – 440
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Lower drapery and feet of a woman to right, wearing a chiton and himation; draped male, with his left arm bent, leaning on a stick, gesturing to the figure on the left, with his right hand; below, meander with cross squares
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Four black glazed fragments from kylikes; sheared
Christ into Limbo, from The Fall and Redemption of Man
Object type: print
Date: 1513 – 1513
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: germany
Artist: albrecht altdorfer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1480 – 1538

Albrecht Altdorfer, known as one of the Little Masters (in German, Kleinmeister) along with Georg Pencz and the brothers Barthel and Sebald Beham, excelled at creating prints on a minute scale, whether in intaglio or relief. This woodcuts is part of a series entitled The Fall and Redemption of Man contrasting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise with Christ’s Passion narrative. Connoisseurs would have collected these diminutive prints as an entire cycle and often pasted them into albums.
The Right Honble. Lady Elizabeth Lee, Daughter of Simon Earl Harcourt
Object type: print
Date: 1765 – 1770
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: london
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Portret van Carolina van Hannover
Object type: print
Date: 1723 – 1756
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Subjects: london, historical persons, princess
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Jonge vrouw die een cister stemt
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: germany
Artist: william unger
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1837 – 1932
Subjects: violin, fiddle, tuning the lute, lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo, drinking-horn
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent naar het schilderij door Gabriël Metsu in de Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister te Kassel (inv.nr. GK 301).
Inkstone with Pine Tree and Bird
Object type: inkstone
Date: 1501 – 1600
Culture: chinese
Subjects: birds,trees
Scipio Africanus en zijn strijdende leger
Object type: print
Date: 1620 – 1620
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: battle, (story of) p. cornelius scipio africanus major, the soldier; the soldier's life
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’, collector's mark: Lugt 11, number: ‘7’

Scipio Africanus en zijn strijdende leger. Op de voorgrond ligt een gewonde soldaat op de grond (Scipio?). Versregels in het Latijn in ondermarge.
Conciosacra
Object type: print
Date: 1579 – 1579
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: johann sadeler (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1550 – 1600
Subjects: false church personified, relics (and reliquaries), truth; 'verità' (ripa), conscience; 'coscienza' (ripa), indulgence ~ confession, punishment; 'castigo', 'pena', 'punitione' (ripa), rewarding goodness
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

De personificatie Geweten (Conciosacra). Ze blaast op de trompet van Waarheid (Veritas). In haar linkerhand de roede van straf en een olijftak van beloning (Poena et primium). Ze vertrapt de personificatie van Valse Profeten (Pseudo prophetae), een man met aflaten, relieken, een hoorn en twee handbellen.
Gorchum
Object type: area plan
Date: 1612 – 1648
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ city; municipal), maps of cities, coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ province; provincial)

Deze staat van prent voor het eerst ook gebruikt in: Guicciardini, Lodovico. Beschryvinghe van alle de Neder-landen, anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt (…). Amsterdam: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1612.

Hierna is deze prent tot 1648 nog gebruikt in latere uitgaven van deze publicatie, uitgegeven door Blaeu en daarna door Janssonius. Uit welke uitgave het huidige exemplaar precies komt is niet na te gaan.
Interieur van een ziekenzaal in een militair ziekenhuis in Bloemfontein, Zuid-Afrika
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: new york city
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the soldier; the soldier's life, ward; room (in hospital)
Inscriptions: inscription, number: ‘85’, inscription: ‘Works and Studios ~/ Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.’, copyright notice: ‘Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood.’
Man en vrouw bij een jonge boom
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1625 – 1625
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: middelburg
Subjects: relations between the sexes, trees (+ plants used symbolically)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Een elegant gekleed paar kijkt naar een jonge boom, waarvan de stam is gebonden aan een tweede tak, om hem recht te laten groeien. Boekillustratie uit: Jacob Cats, Houwelijck, 1625.
Caspar Netscher en Margaretha Godin
Object type: print
Date: 1752 – 1771
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: rotterdam
Subjects: monkeys, apes, ornamental birds: parrot, portrait, self-portrait of painter, couple of lovers
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De schilder Caspar Netscher en zijn echtgenote Margaretha Godin staande in een boogvormig venster. Caspar Netscher voert een pinda aan een aapje op de vensterbank. Margaretha Godin voert een papegaai. Over de vensterbank hangt een tapijt. In de ruimte achter het echtpaar staan een man en vrouw.
Vier portretten van baby's, waarvan één portret met een vrouw
Object type: photograph
Date: 1915 – 1930
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman, historical persons - bb - woman, historical persons, infant, baby ~ the ages of man
Fluted Vase
Object type: vessel
Materials: stoneware
Location: china
Untitled (Portrait of Two Men; a Barber and Client)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1863 – 1863
Techniques: photography, tintype
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Subjects: lundberg collection, barbershops, portraits, portraits: male subject, portraits: multiple subjects
Portrait of a Venetian Senator
Object type: painting
Date: 1525 – 1525
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: catena (vincenzo di biagio)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1506 – 1531
Subjects: men,portraits

The sitter of this portrait is identified as a Venetian senator by his rich red vesta, or outer garment, a color that was only allowed to holders of public office in the city. He is also wearing a black cap and a stole across his shoulders, another mark of distinction. Catena was a friend of the great painter Giorgione and his portraits were highly praised by his contemporaries
Camposanto. Mon. Carpaneto (Scanzi
Object type: photograph
Date: 1886 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: genoa
Subjects: sculpture, grave-building, monumental tomb, angels
Inscriptions: number: ‘4827.’, collector's mark: ‘VOSMAER’
Petipa
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1860
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: andré-adolphe-eugène disdéri
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1819 – 1889
Portret van Gottlieb Gerhard Titius
Object type: print
Date: 1716 – 1716
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leipzig
Subjects: further education (+ portrait of teacher, professor), historical persons, lawyer, attorney at law
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst in het Latijn op en bij de sokkel.
Glass ribbed bowl
Object type: bowl, ribbed
Date: 67 – 100
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent blue green. Vertical rim with angular top edge; plain, vertical band around top of sides, then bulging outward before curving in sharply to slightly concave bottom. On interior, three fine concentric grooves around outer edge of bottom and small, broader circle at center; on exterior, seventy-six vertical or slightly slanting ribs of slightly varying length, width, and thickness, with tops ground off, arranged around bulging middle section of body. Intact; pinprick bubbles; pitting, dulling, and iridescence with small patches of creamy weathering. Rotary grinding marks on plain band around top of sides and on interior.
Kittie Chase, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1886 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: firearms,portraits,women

The "Actors and Actresses" series of trade cards (N171) was issued by Goodwin & Company from ca. 1886-90 to promote Old Judge, Gypsy Queen, and Temple Bar Cigarettes.
On Stage III
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1877
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: drypoint, roulette, etching
Location: france
Artist: edgar degas
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1834 – 1917
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 15 janvier 1798, (2) : Bonnet négligé à Tuyaux (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1798 – 1798
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: dress, gown: redingote (+ women's clothes), neck-gear ~ clothing (palatine) (+ women's clothes), head-gear: cap (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes), gloves, mittens, etc. (+ women's clothes), muff (+ fur used for clothes)
Inscriptions: caption: ‘Bonnet négligé à Tuyaux. Redingotte en Soie, bordée d'une très-large Bande de Velours.’, title: ‘Costume Parisien.’

'Bonnet négligé à Tuyaux'. Redingote van zijde, afgezet met een zeer brede band van fluweel. Om de schouders een 'palatine' van bont. Verdere accessoires: grote gestreepte mof van bont, handschoenen, schoen met puntige neus en gesp(?). De prent maakt deel uit van het modetijdschrift Journal des Dames et des Modes, uitgegeven door Sellèque, Parijs, 1797-1839.
Design for an Interior Wall with Pedimented Niches or Windows, Flanking a Cartouche
Object type: drawing
Date: 1500 – 1700
Materials: ink, drawing material
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, italian, 16th to 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1500 – 1700
Subjects: architecture
Brief aan Filippo Tessaro
Object type: letter
Date: 1879 – 1879
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: driebergen
Artist: herman johannes aloysius maria schaepman
Artist role: priest
Artist dates: 1844 – 1903
Subjects: amsterdam, rotterdam, print maker, draughtsman, charles rochussen, charlemagne (holy roman emperor), printed matter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233, watermark
Hexagonal saucer with star-shaped panel with a flying crane
Object type: platter
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: cobalt, glaze, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, turning, vitrification
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: mark: ‘福’

Schotel van porselein, zeshoekig, beschilderd in onderglazuurblauw met lotusranken en een stervormig veld met een vliegende kraanvogel op een achtergrond van gebarsten ijs. Gemerkt op de bodem met een vierkant 'Fu'-merk in een dubbele cirkel.
Woman Burning Incense
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: yosa buson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1716 – 1783
Subjects: women,incense burners
Interieur van de Michaeliskirche te Hildesheim, met zicht op de preekstoel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper, ink
Techniques: photograph
Location: michaeliskirche
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture, interior of church, pulpit, ambo, chancel
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL <BR />QUELLINUS <BR />AMSTERDAM <BR />FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’, inscription: ‘Romaansche Kunst - Duitschland. <BR />Hildesheim. (...) De schipzuilen en pijlers (Oud-Saksische omwisseling) van den bouw van 1186.’, number: ‘1565.’, collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST- <BR />NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS <BR />GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16. <BR />AMSTERDAM’, inscription: ‘CWN.’
Aankondiging van collecte voor het Gesticht voor Liefdadigheid te Amsterdam
Object type: text sheet
Date: 1831 – 1831
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: antonius hubertus mali
Artist role: priest
Subjects: orphanage
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Armwezen en liefdadige instellingen: II. Kerkelijke inrichtingen: R.C. Oude Vrouwen- en Mannenhuis (St. Jacobs Gesticht).
McGlone, 3rd Base, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes
Bananenbomen op Plantage Dordrecht
Object type: photograph
Date: 1912 – 1913
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: suriname
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: plantation, fruits: banana, suriname

Bananenbomen op Plantage Dordrecht in Suriname. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum uit ca. 1912-1913 met 92 foto's van de plantages Peperpot en Dordrecht in Suriname en Mount Pleasant op Curaçao.
Portret van Michel Ghislain Stapleaux
Object type: drawing
Date: 1800 – 1881
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: brussels, painter, michel ghislain stapleaux, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Base
Object type: base
Date: 1134 – 1166
Materials: marble
Culture: catalan
Location: france
Tobias bij de vis in de rivier de Tigris
Object type: print
Date: 1603 – 1641
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: jan van de velde (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1593 – 1641
Subjects: tobias washes his feet in the river tigris, a large fish appears while tobias is washing his feet; he is frightened
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Tobias wil zijn voeten wassen in de rivier de Tigris, waarop de engel Rafaël hem opdraagt de vis te vangen die verschijnt. Tweede prent uit een serie van vier over het bijbelverhaal van Tobias.
Gerard Brouwers op de veranda van Plantage Accaribo
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1913 – 1913
Materials: glass
Techniques: photography
Location: suriname
Artist: theodoor brouwers
Artist role: amateurfotograaf
Artist dates: 1874 – 1932
Subjects: theodoor brouwers, plantation, suriname

In de periode 1911-1932 woonde op plantage Accaribo in Suriname de familie Brouwers van wie de foto's afkomstig zijn. Rond 1910 vond Theodoor Brouwers werk op plantage Accaribo. In 1929 werd hij eigenaar van de plantage. Op Accaribo werden in zijn tijd bananen geproduceerd en wat koffie.
Portret van een onbekende man, mogelijk F. Henne
Object type: print
Date: 1861 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: louis le nain
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1851 – 1939
Subjects: moustache, adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Terminée LLe Nain’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Opschrift op object in potlood: F. Henne.
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 1814 – 1814
Materials: silk
Culture: british

In the early years of the nineteeth century, the high-waisted Empire-style dress was rendered more solid through the use of heavier fabrics and more trimmings. The circa 1820 dress in the front of this image reveals the impulse toward embellishment of the simple chemise of the 1800s. Embroidery in lime green gives more weight to the skirt while the satin spencer provides a base for ribbons and ruffles. Behind this, the 1812–14 dress (1985.222.2a, b) is also more solid, made of silk and trimmed with silk lace. The puffed sleeves are made more substantial through the addition of cording. The weight of fabric and trimming negates the body-conscious line of the earlier sheer cotton and linen dresses. Into the 1820s, plain gowns such as these would be accented with more and more applied decoration.
Maurice Denis
Object type: print
Date: 1903 – 1903
Materials: paper, ink
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: odilon redon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1840 – 1916
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Object type: knife handle kozuka
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: copper, gold alloy, silver alloy, gold, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: rats
Hoofd van een man of vrouw
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1925 – 1934
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: the hague
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934
Subjects: adult man (+ sitting)

Blad 29 recto uit schetsboek XXVI met 35 bladen.
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1882 – 1883
Materials: crayon, paper
Artist: georges seurat
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1859 – 1891
Subjects: men,portraits,profiles,artists

Seurat's study of his friend the artist Aman-Jean (1858–1936) ranks as one of the great portrait drawings of the nineteenth century. Aman-Jean and Seurat were both students at the École Municipale du Dessin and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; they shared a studio in 1879. The drawing is not a preparatory study for a painting but a finished work. Shown in the Paris Salon of 1883, it was the first work to be exhibited by the twenty-three-year-old artist. Seurat's signature use of conté crayon on textured laid Michallet paper of high quality resulted in drawings with luminosity and tonal harmony, and the classic balanced pose of the artist in profile, focusing intently on his work, gives the image an enduring, timeless quality.
Water met visser en twee zwanen
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Subjects: water-birds: swan, angling, mountains
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Spiegelbeeldige kopie naar de gelijknamige prent van Rembrandt.
Fotoreproducties van Madonna en de Heilige Johannes door Peter Paul Rubens
Object type: reproduction
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: brussels
Subjects: the apostle john the evangelist; possible attributes: book, cauldron, chalice with snake, eagle, palm, scroll, mary standing (or half-length), the christ-child in front of her, close to her bosom; standing
Onbekende jonge vrouw gezeten op een stoel
Object type: print
Date: 1877 – 1877
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: adrien de witte
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1850 – 1935
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, historical persons, chair
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Ex libris van Jan en Eva
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1900 – 1949
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: little people
Kinderen in Zeeuwse klederdracht
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: folk costume, regional costume
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Hollanders’

Drie meisjes, een jongen en een klein kind in Zeeuwse klederdracht, voor een huis.
Paperweight
Object type: glass
Date: 1845 – 1860
Materials: glass
Location: baccarat
Artist: baccarat glassworks

The colorful geometric clusters embedded in this paperweight reflect the nineteenth-century European fascination with optical effects. Sir David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope in 1815, and its colorful and changing patterns brought great visual entertainment. Paperweights such as this example reformed this childlike pastime for a sophisticated adult audience. Depicted in glass were tiny glittering flowers, small black and blue cameos of figures, and even miniature bottlecaps. These were delicately arranged within the orb for the observant eye to discover.

From the late 1840s to early 1860s, French manufacturers of fine glass and crystal—such as Baccarat (Alsace), Clichy (Paris), and Saint-Louis (Lorraine)—catered to the vast public enthusiasm for beautiful yet functional desk accessories. Paperweights, which were designed to secure loose papers against drafts, were among their most popular products.
Houtkap op plantage Accaribo
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1913 – 1930
Materials: glass
Techniques: photography
Location: suriname
Artist: theodoor brouwers
Artist role: amateurfotograaf
Artist dates: 1874 – 1932
Subjects: amsterdam, theodoor brouwers, plantation, suriname

In de periode 1911-1932 woonde op plantage Accaribo in Suriname de familie Brouwers van wie de foto's afkomstig zijn. Rond 1910 vond Theodoor Brouwers werk op plantage Accaribo. In 1929 werd hij eigenaar van de plantage. Op Accaribo werden in zijn tijd bananen geproduceerd en wat koffie.