Title(s)

Gezicht op de Sigsbee-sondeermachine aan de George S. Blake

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1064-12

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate 15.’
• inscription: ‘The Sigsbee sounding machine in position: run out for work.’
• name: ‘Heliotype Printing Co., 220 Devonshire St., Boston.’

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• printer: Heliotype Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

maker: United States of America
printer: Boston

Dating

c. 1870 - in or before 1880

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 165 mm × width 215 mm

What

• fathoming, sounding
• machines; parts of machines; tools and appliances
• steamship, motorship

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

• Deep-sea sounding and dredging (RP-F-2001-7-1064)