Poster for weekly magazine 'Het Midden'
Also known as: Affiche voor weekblad 'Het Midden'
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1849 - 1949
A waiter brings a drink to a man sitting in a café reading the weekly magazine 'Het Midden'. In the background a desert landscape with pyramids. The depiction is drawn in Egyptian style.
Surrounding the depiction is an ornamental border with birds, leaves and grapes. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as RP-D-1986-19-317; its record gives material recorded as paper; technique printing block; measurements height 280 mm x width 218 mm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- paper
- Technique
- printing block
- Measurements
- height 280 mm x width 218 mm
- Dimensions museum
- height 280 mm x width 218 mm
Identification
- Original title
- Affiche voor weekblad 'Het Midden'
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- RP-D-1986-19-317
- Museum classification
- poster · photomechanical print
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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