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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1852,0214.256
Description: The Hundred Guilder print; Christ standing in a rocky landscape preaching to a crowd of people, many sick; while gesturing with his right hand towards a baby which a woman in a turban holds up to Him at left; an old woman with her hands lifted in prayer at right, behind a sick person who lies leaning against her, another sick person in a makeshift wheeled trolley behind them; people looking through an arched doorway to far right; with Christ's figure and a lamp inside the building to right as the sources of light; copy in same direction after Rembrandt; third finished state with signature and date. 1758 Etching and drypoint
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Worlidge; After: Rembrandt
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1758
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; drypoint
Dimensions: Height: 271 millimetres (cut); Width: 385 millimetres (cut)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For further impressions see 1852,0214.255; 1925,0612.1; and F,4.158. For comment on the Rembrandt etching see also F,4.154. Number 4 in the catalogue of Worlidge's prints sold by his widow in 1767 (D,2.12); priced at £3 3s.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (239) (Rembrandt; copy c.III); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (236) (copy undescribed); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (74) (copy 1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christ blessing little children
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ
Acquisition name: Purchased from: A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date: 1852
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1852,0214.256

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