Title(s)

Vier microscoopopnamen van bacteriën
Photographs of microbes (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-22

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘These four photomicrographs show different types of bacteria. These minute organisms are far below the range of vision; they have been photographed through a powerfull microscope (See chap. xiv.)’

Description

Boven: difterie en cholera. Onder: vlektyfus en tetanus

Artist

• R.M. Buchanan (possibly)
• print maker: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 122 mm

What

• unicellular animals, bacteria, bacilli

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)