print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1768
- Description
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The Woman Taken in Adultery; after Rembrandt; plate made for John Young's 'Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of ... John Julius Angerstein'; proof before letters. 1823
Etching
- Production date
- 1823
- Dimensions
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Height: 295 millimetres
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Width: 234 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- After the 1644 painting by Rembrandt in the National Gallery, London, inv.no.NG45 (Bredius 566).
For another impression see also 1860,1208.110.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of ... John Julius Angerstein (1823)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM bought at the sale through Daniell lot 274 in its entirety, as well as selections from lots 157,184,225,247,248,249,251,252,260 as well as various other odd prints that Daniell had purchased for himself. It is not easy to work out which prints came from which lots.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1768