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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1848,0911.97
Description: A woman making water; peasant woman, crouching and defecating against the bottom of a tree; second state with plate reworked. 1631 Etching Watermark: Arms of Württemberg (Hinterding catalogue, variant B´.a.b., datable 1634-36)
Producer name: Print made by: Rembrandt
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1631
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 81 millimetres; Width: 65 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For comment see also 1848,0911.96. For the copy by Denon see 1877,1013.2457.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (79.II) (Rembrandt); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (46); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (191); Hinterding et al. 2000 / Rembrandt the Printmaker (12)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2001 Jun-Sep, Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, Rembrant's Women 2001 Sep-Dec, London, Royal Academy, Rembrandt's Women 2019-2020 1 Nov-6 Feb, The Netherlands, Leiden, Museum De Lakenhal, Young Rembrandt 2020 27 Feb-1 Nov, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Young Rembrandt
Subjects: peasant/villager
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: 1848,0911.97
Conservation: Treatment: 23 Sep 1997

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