Roles

 

The people involved with our collection have had a total of 122 roles and this is page 1 of 4.

Our cataloguers talk about roles as a way to describe how those responsible for a work were involved in its creation.

A single object may have multiple people, in a variety of different roles, associated with it. Different curatorial departments use descriptive terms in different ways. Over time, this creates tremendous diversity in the vocabulary that appears in collection records. We are currently working to reconcile these differences.

There are 102 production related roles and 20 donor related roles.

  • Donor

    3,167 people had this role and were involved with 111,840 objects.

  • Designer

    4,755 people had this role and were involved with 30,491 objects.

  • Cataloguer

    186 people had this role and were involved with 21,233 objects.

  • Vendor

    634 people had this role and were involved with 14,212 objects.

  • Manufacturer

    2,133 people had this role and were involved with 12,893 objects.

  • Bequestor

    64 people had this role and were involved with 9,359 objects.

  • Artist

    1,273 people had this role and were involved with 8,346 objects.

  • Maker

    1,052 people had this role and were involved with 3,885 objects.

  • Office of

    46 people had this role and were involved with 3,211 objects.

  • Publisher

    403 people had this role and were involved with 3,045 objects.

  • Fund

    36 people had this role and were involved with 3,028 objects.

  • Client

    644 people had this role and were involved with 2,633 objects.

  • Producer

    350 people had this role and were involved with 2,441 objects.

  • For

    227 people had this role and were involved with 2,207 objects.

  • Architect

    202 people had this role and were involved with 2,103 objects.

  • Engraver

    216 people had this role and were involved with 2,029 objects.

  • Lender

    208 people had this role and were involved with 1,169 objects.

  • Draftsman

    103 people had this role and were involved with 1,001 objects.

  • Company

    173 people had this role and were involved with 729 objects.

  • Printer

    234 people had this role and were involved with 695 objects.

  • Weaver

    66 people had this role and were involved with 668 objects.

  • Collaborator

    152 people had this role and were involved with 665 objects.

  • After

    233 people had this role and were involved with 661 objects.

  • Author

    354 people had this role and were involved with 611 objects.

  • Distributor

    115 people had this role and were involved with 607 objects.

  • Design Director

    55 people had this role and were involved with 527 objects.

  • Agent

    68 people had this role and were involved with 517 objects.

  • Firm

    82 people had this role and were involved with 503 objects.

  • Embroiderer

    421 people had this role and were involved with 467 objects.

  • Funder

    106 people had this role and were involved with 396 objects.

  • Attributed to

    223 people had this role and were involved with 377 objects.

  • Transferor

    17 people had this role and were involved with 339 objects.

  • Photographer

    123 people had this role and were involved with 246 objects.

  • Etcher

    36 people had this role and were involved with 233 objects.

  • Graphic Designer

    38 people had this role and were involved with 208 objects.