deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Gezicht op Ambachtsheerlijkheid de Bilt en Oostbroek
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1799
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: country-house
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp

Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, De Woning. Kastelen en buitenplaatsen. Utrecht (vervolg.).
Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique (...) Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne
Object type: print
Date: 1726 – 1726
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leiden
Subjects: fortress, maps of cities

Plattegrond van de versterkingen om de stad Mainz. Plaat nr. 186 in deel VIII van het prentwerk: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne uit 1726, dit eerste deel met 238 met de hand genummerde platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen in het kader van de Spaanse Successieoorlog 1701-1713. Voor het merendeel zijn deze platen gekopieerd naar de anonieme Franse platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen: in Les forces de l'Europe en in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, beide oorspronkelijk uitgegeven door Nicolas de Fer te Parijs (1693-1697) in het kader van de Negenjarige Oorlog. Titel en opschriften in het Frans. Rechtsonder sporen van het weggepolijste nummer: 94.
Gouden staanspeld
Object type: kapstel
Date: 1785 – 1800
Materials: gold, coral
Techniques: filigree
Location: zaanstreek
Artist: jacobus carrenhoff
Artist role: silversmith
Artist dates: 1771 – 1848
Inscriptions: mark

Gouden staanspeld versierd met een bloedkoraal in een gouden zetting met filigrein rozetten. Afkomstig van een Oud-Zaans kapstel. Gemerkt J.C.H.
Jan Goltz II, Father of the Artist
Object type: print
Date: 1578 – 1578
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrick goltzius
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1558 – 1617
Inscriptions: Lettered: "Anno 1578 / Ioan Gols van Keiserswerdt seiner alters 44 / Wan man als khan ... ewig bleiben / HGoltzius"
Gedrukte schetsen
Object type: book
Date: 1910 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: japan
Inscriptions: date
Aleid van Poelgeest vermoord
Object type: print
Date: 1842 – 1844
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: johann wilhelm kaiser (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1813 – 1900
Subjects: the hague, duke of bavaria albert i, violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death, netherlands

Illustratie voor: J.P. Arend, Algemeene geschiedenis des vaderlands, Amsterdam, 5 delen, 1840-1882, dl. 2.2 (1844), p. 300.
Onze huisvrienden
Object type: popular print
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: cat, dog
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 7 voorstellingen van honden en katten. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 62.
Tegel
Object type: tile
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: earthenware
Location: spain
Artist: Anonymous

Tegel van aardewerk, beschilderd in blauw, groen, geel en mangaan, blauw ovaal waarbinnen symmetrisch bladmotief. In de hoeken delen van rozetten. Met BK-1977-118-a in moderne houten lijst.
Miniature tankard
Object type: tankard
Date: 1707 – 1708
Materials: silver
Artist: george manjoy
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1685 – 1685
Tabula III. Caroli victoria ad Ticinum
Object type: history print
Date: 1635 – 1636
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: southern netherlands
Subjects: frans i van valois-angoulême (koning van frankrijk), ghent, charles v (holy roman emperor and king of spain), brussels, landvoogd der zuidelijke nederlanden ferdinand van oostenrijk, triumphal arch, battle (+ land forces)

Overwinning van Karel V op de Fransen tijdens de Slag bij Pavia (Ticinum) en de gevangenneming van de Franse koning Frans I, 24 februari 1525. Ruitergevecht, op de achtergrond kijken drie allegorische vrouwenfiguren toe. Voorstelling links op de voorzijde van de triomfpoort Arcus Caroli op de Vrijdagmarkt. Blad nr. 22 in een geheel van 42 platen die de uitgave van de beschrijving van de intocht van de Kardinaal Infant Ferdinand van Oostenrijk te Gent op 28 januari 1635 als de nieuwe landvoogd voor de Spaanse Nederlanden illustreren.
Amerikaanse stoomlocomotief
Object type: page
Date: 1871 – 1881
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: steam locomotive
Inscriptions: number: ‘275’
Burg Nideck, Nideck
Object type: page
Date: 1889 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: straatsburg
Artist: charles bernhoeft
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1859 – 1933
Subjects: castle, waterfall, landscape with ruins

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een omslag met 100 prenten.
Portret van Joachim Heinrich Campe
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1825
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: leipzig
Subjects: joachim heinrich campe, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Hodogaya: Katabira River and Katabira Brige (Hodogaya, Katabiragawa Katabirabashi)—No. 5, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1852
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Der entkräffte Duellant, und treue secundant
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1710 – 1710
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: duelling, angels
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Abraham a Sancta Clara. Heilsames Gemisch Gemasch, das ist: Allerley seltsame und verwunderliche Geschichten (...). Neurenberg: Christoph Weigel, 1710, p. 396.
Spindle Whorl
Object type: spindle whorl
Date: 801 – 1000
Materials: bone, paint
Techniques: incising, inlay, tinting
Location: iran

Spindle whorls aided in the making of thread by maintaining the momentum of the spindle. This blue-green spindle whorl was excavated during the Metropolitan Museum’s excavation at Nishapur, in eastern Iran. Its flat top is encircled with incised lines, inlaid with red paste. The rounded sides are adorned with two rows of intermixed large and small dot-in-circles. Hundreds of spindle whorls were excavated at Nishapur, providing further evidence that the city possessed a thriving textile industry. Their incised designs exhibit a wide variety of motifs ranging from geometric forms to zoomorphic figures.
Terracotta rim fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Object type: skyphos fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Head, neck, and part of the himation of a bearded man to left
Situla
Object type: situla
Date: 600 – 100
Materials: copper alloy
Location: egypt

See 58.76.5 for a discussion of situlae of this type.
Klaver drie met ‘snake dance’, Oraibi, Navajo County, Arizona
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: los angeles
Artist: adam clark vroman
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1856 – 1916
Subjects: arizona

Speelkaart uit doosje met 53 speelkaarten met afbeeldingen in autotypie van Native Americans. De inhoud bevat een complete set speelkaarten inclusief joker.
Gezicht op het Forum Romanum te Rome
Object type: print
Date: 1629 – 1629
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: tuscany
Subjects: landscape with ruins
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een reeks van 52 prenten.
Standing female figurine
Object type: statuette of a woman
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Subjects: women

The figurine is mold-made, solid, and flat at the back. Her arms and belly were reworked by hand.
Ypres, la gare
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1918
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: autotype
Location: ieper
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: station; shelter (railway, tramway), city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Alcamène ziet Chariclée, liggend in bed
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1623 – 1623
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: paris
Subjects: bed
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent gebruikt voor: Emesenus, Heliodorus. Les amours de Théagène et Chariclée, / Histoire éthiopique de Heliodore. Parijs: Samuel Thiboust, 1623, p. 266.
Twee ontwerpen voor gueridons
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1825 – 1839
Materials: ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: table (+ wood and other phytogenic material)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘64 Gueridon octogone filet cuivre en palissandre 24 27 30p*<BR />65 Gueridon rond à gorge palissandre filet bois pies à gorge<BR />les mêmes avec filet cuivre en plus py vte ry’

Twee ontwerpen voor opvouwbare tafels (gueridons). Vervaardigd in palissanderhout en versierd met koperdraad. Het blad op de achterzijde genummerd: 49, het tegenoverliggende blad met informatie over de afgebeelde meubelen genummerd: 49 bis. Onderdeel van een album met 80 bladen met tekeningen en een prent van gefineerde en gelakte meubelen, alsmede zitmeubelen.
Arms for the Foundling Hospital
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: william hogarth
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1697 – 1764
Subjects: coat of arms
Brief aan Jan Veth
Object type: letter
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: dordrecht
Artist: martinus cornelis lebret
Artist role: verzamelaar
Artist dates: 1833 – 1894
Subjects: dordrecht, print maker, designer, jan veth, the hague, london, matthijs maris, eduard karsen, amsterdam, physicist, haarlem, painter, draughtsman, family life, exhibition ~ art, diseases, charitable works, money
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Views of London and its Vicinity
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1854 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: london
Subjects: parts of church exterior and annexes: transept, westminster abbey
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 70’
Portret van Erik Tolstadius
Object type: print
Date: 1761 – 1761
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: theologian, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Tolstadius, Erik, Nordische Sammlungen, welche Exempel lebendigen und wahren Gottseligkeit im Reiche Schweden in sich halten. Stockholm: Rosten Guter Freunde, 1761, dl. 2.
Calash
Object type: calash
Date: 1835 – 1845
Materials: silk
Culture: american or european
Vertrek per fiets voor Hotel National, Bazel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1905 – 1905
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: basel
Artist: françois buys
Artist role: advocaat, amateurfotograaf
Artist dates: 1871 – 1934
Subjects: bicycle, departure ~ travelling, hotel, hostelry, inn

Deze foto maakt deel uit van een groep van 38 foto's.
"Building Winter Quarters"
Object type: photograph
Date: 1861 – 1865
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: soldiers,american civil war,women,horses
Tile
Object type: tile
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: glaze, stonepaste
Techniques: molding, painting
Location: iran
Subjects: men,horses,flowers
Rapid photographs
Object type: snapshot
Date: 1912 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman, adult man, anonymous historical person portrayed

Between 1912 and 1930, anyone could have their portrait taken at the many so-called rapid photography studios in the shopping streets of mainly (medium) large-size European cities. As if on an assembly line, the youngest clerk shot the photographs with a special camera and in artificial light and developed them. Later in the day, the customer collected a sheet with 12 portrait photos for 25 cents. This form of photographic mass production gave rise to a fascinating tableau of boys, girls, men and women not previously seen in photographs; candid and informal. There were at least 150 quick-photo studios, from Alkmaar to Zutphen. Many called themselves ‘American,’ mistakenly as it turns out because hardly any examples from that country have been found.
Staande koe, met zijn kop tussen palen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1775 – 1833
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: jean bernard
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1765 – 1833
Subjects: cow
De kerk te Schore, op Zuid-Beveland
Object type: drawing
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior)
Isabel Wachenheimer tijdens carnaval, in maart 1935
Object type: photograph
Date: 1903 – 1935
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: leiden, isabel wachenheimer-elon
Inscriptions: date: ‘März 1935’

Isabel Wachenheimer, uiterst rechts afgebeeld, zittend op een bank, met onbekende kinderen tijdens carnaval 1935.
Illustration for a Book:  Troops Advancing toward a City Gate
Object type: drawing
Date: 1696 – 1770
Materials: chalk, graphite
Artist: giovanni battista tiepolo
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1696 – 1770
Subjects: gates,soldiers,spears,horses
Nightgown
Object type: nightgown
Date: 1870 – 1870
Materials: linen
Culture: american
Architectura de Oorden Tusschana
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1578 – 1578
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: antwerp
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture, tuscan order ~ architecture, other architectural details (console)

Twee 'columnae caelatae' met rustica, diamantkoppen en halve bollen. Daarbij drie consoles. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van stadhouder Willem III, koning van Engeland
Object type: print
Date: 1689 – 1726
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Subjects: the hague, william iii (prince of orange and king of england, scotland, and ireland), armour, wig
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Willem III, prins van Oranje-Nassau en sinds 1689 koning van Engeland, in harnas. In de marge een lofdicht over zijn kroning in Engeland.
Kom van veelkleurig beschilderd porselein.
Object type: bowl
Date: 1720 – 1720
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: painted
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Bowl. Meissen (?), c. 1715 - 1725, c. decorated 1715 - 1725.
Card 5, John H. Clark, from the Prizefighters series (N269) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Mechanics Delight Long Cut Tobacco
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: p. lorillard company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1760 – 2014
Subjects: men,portraits,boxing,athletes

Trade cards from the "Prizefighters" series (N269), issued in 1887 by P. Lorillard Company to promote the brand's Mechanics Delight Long Cut Tobacco.
Plan of the City of Rome. Part 7 with a Dedication to Camillo Pamphili, the Vatican and Part of the City Wall
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1645
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: antonio tempesta
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1555 – 1630
Subjects: cities,maps,rome

Part of the lower half of the map. The sheet is characterized by a banner with a dedication from Domenico Rossi to Camillo Pamphili. It shows part of the left bank of the city with the Vatican and part of the city wall.
The Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha
Object type: figure
Date: 1101 – 1200
Culture: bangladeshi or indian or bengali
Subjects: swords,demons,durga,hinduism

This sculpture portrays the sixteen-armed form of the goddess Durga as the slayer of the demon buffalo Mahisha. The array of arms, each displaying a weapon, creates a kinetic energy in the image, no doubt all the more powerful when contemplated in a shrine dimly illuminated by oil lamps. This work is among the finest Indian miniature sculptures of the Pala-Sena period.
Self-Portrait with Model II
Object type: print
Date: 1899 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: sweden
Artist: anders zorn
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: swedish
Artist dates: 1860 – 1920
A Young Knight of the Garter, Possibly George Augustus (1683–1760), Later George II of Great Britain and Ireland
Object type: painting, miniature
Date: 1701 – 1711
Materials: parchment
Artist: benjamin arlaud
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: swiss
Artist dates: 1701 – 1717
Subjects: men,portraits,knights
Doorway
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: italy
Artist: circle of andrea palladio
Spotprent op de arminianen, 1618
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1618 – 1618
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: court jester, court fool, horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba, proverbs, sayings, etc., drinking-horn

Moralistische voorstelling die weleens wordt geïnterpreteerd als een spotprent op de arminianen in 1618. Het opschrift in het midden 'Versint eer ghy beghint' duidt het onderwerp van de voorstelling beter aan. Ondanks de waarschuwingen van een oude man duikt een jongeman in de wijde opening van een grote hoorn. Vervolgens komt hij echter in de smalle uiteinde klem te zitten. Rechts kijkt een lachende nar uit het raam en verwoordt het moraal van de prent, het spreekwoord 'Bezint eer ge begint' of 'Hij werkt zich in het nauw'. Zie ook de interpretatie van de 'hoornkruiper'. Met zeven versjes in de voorstelling.
Jean de Montpezat de Carbon
Object type: print
Date: 1673 – 1673
Techniques: engraving
Artist: robert nanteuil
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1623 – 1678
Subjects: men,portraits,coat of arms
Stad Enkhuizen, loodje met cijfer 11
Object type: tonnegeld
Date: 1600 – 1800
Materials: lead
Techniques: striking
Location: enkhuizen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: enkhuizen

eenzijdig loodje. Voorzijde: stempel en wapenschild boven compartiment met cijfer 11. Keerzijde: blanco
Inname van Aalst, 1582
Object type: history print
Date: 1613 – 1615
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: capture of city (after the siege)

Inname van Aalst door het leger van de hertog van Parma, 23 april 1582. Met onderschrift van 3 regels in het Nederlands en 3 regels in het Frans. Ongenummerd. Bedrukt op achterzijde met tekst in het Latijn.
Belt Plaque with Fighting Horses
Object type: belt plaque
Date: 200 – 1
Materials: bronze
Culture: northwest chinese
Subjects: horses
Sudarium van H. Veronica
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1706
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: paris
Subjects: crown of thorns ~ instruments of the passion, 'vera icon', 'sudarium', veronica-portrait
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark

De zweetdoek van de Heilige Veronica waarop de afdruk van het gelaat van Christus. Onder de doek de doornenkroon. In de marge een Bijbelcitaat uit Jes. 50:6 in het Latijn.
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment, eye cup, bilingual
Date: 433 – 567
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, leg and end of drapery; part of an inscription, THE; hand holding unidentified object; part of an inscription, KT
Water- of Gevangenpoort te Woudrichem
Object type: drawing
Date: 1836 – 1912
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: isaac weissenbruch
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1826 – 1912
Subjects: city-gate, woudrichem
Strange Rocks
Object type: painting
Materials: ink, paper
Location: china
Artist: gao yang
Portret van Filips II, koning van Spanje
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1749
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: philip ii of spain, historical persons, knighthood order of the golden fleece
Portret van Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: paris, politician, historical persons, politician, e.g. party leader
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Measure
Object type: measure
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: pewter
Geit
Object type: print
Date: 1823 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: the hague
Artist: jan bedijs tom
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1813 – 1894
Subjects: goat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Schutterij van St. Antonius
Object type: marksman medal
Date: 1550 – 1700
Materials: tin
Techniques: casting
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam
Portrait of the Painter François Gysels
Object type: drawing
Date: 1620 – 1630
Materials: graphite, ink, parchment
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: david bailly
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1584 – 1657
Subjects: men,portraits,artists,palettes

A portrait painter and draftsman, Bailly created a number of small drawings with pen and fine brush, among them several depicting artists of his day. Bailly drew François Gysels the Younger, a painter of landscapes and portraits from whom no works are known, with meticulous hatching reminiscent of the line work employed in engraving. The illusionistic rendering represents the portrait of Gysels as the subject of an oval painting, leaning on a ledge against a wall. On the ledge are also tools of the sittter's trade-a compass, pen, palette, maulstick, and sheet of paper.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 490
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, part of head and right shoulder of filleted youth to right
Prophet Seated in Profile on a Cloudbank, Praying: decoration for a spandrel
Object type: drawing
Date: 1760 – 1790
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: andré lebrun
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1737 – 1811
Subjects: men,praying
Illustraties vaderlandse geschiedenis
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1722 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: simon fokke
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1712 – 1784
Subjects: koning, jugurtha, breda, jean baptiste vial, jan plantain

Gesprek in de buitenlucht tussen Jan Plantain, Jugurtha en de Ridder de Vial. Onder de afbeelding een tekst met de datum januari 1757.
Forti. Alfred. 18 ans, né à Milan (Italie). Restaurateur. Anarchiste. 27/2/94.
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.
Cylinder seal
Object type: cylinder seal
Date: 1820 – 1730
Materials: mineral
Location: syria
Subjects: birds,hands,heads,ibex