Scraps and Inspiration: Photographs and Graphics in a Designer's Album, 1870-1905

In this volume of the Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, Femke Speelberg unravels the mystery behind an unusual album in the Rijksmuseum Print Room Collection. It contains a curious combination of prints, tracings, magazine clippings of woodcuts and cut-outs of photographs, including some by the famous photographer Édouard Baldus. Through her analyses we finally end up in Rotterdam and the heart of nineteenth-century furniture design.  The Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund enables young researchers from all over the world to explore the photography collection of the Rijksmuseum. The results of these studies are presented each year in the series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, whose publication is also generously made possible by the Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund. English edition | 40 images | ISBN 978 90 71450 37 2Concept and design: Manfred Heiting | Layout: Ger Hudepol Productions