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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1848,0911.92
Description: A beggar in a tall hat and long cloak, standing whole-length slightly turned to left, a beggar woman standing at the door of a cottage in left background, another figure in the doorway; with imitation plate-mark; copy in same direction after an etching probably started by Rembrandt and finished by Jan van Vliet Pen and ink with brown wash
Producer name: After: Rembrandt (unfinished etching); After: Jan van Vliet (rework)
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1700-1799 (c.)
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 121 millimetres; Width: 87 millimetres
Curator's comments: White+Boon describes the etching after which this drawing was copied as 'the work of van Vliet possibly over an unfinished sketch by Rembrandt'. This is from a group of anonymous drawings after Rembrandt etchings formerly in the collection of the Earl of Aylesford.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (16) (Rembrandt; copy undescribed); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (321) (Rejected as Rembrandt; copy undescribed); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (S376) (under 'prints not mentioned by Bartsch'; copy undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: beggar
Acquisition name: Purchased from: W & G Smith
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (L.58); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn
Acquisition date: 1848
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1848,0911.92

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