Coins
Also titled Munten
1861
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 200 mm x width 165 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of R.M. Maks
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Photography soon proved to be an ideal means for documenting objects. Drawings, glassware, archaeological finds, architectural fragments, ancient coins: art history benefitted from the camera. It was one of the domains in which photography, thanks to its greater precision, speed, and convenience, could supersede the older, manual techniques of illustration. Photographs, moreover, served as documentation in case of theft.
