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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1871,0812.1661
Description: St Paul in Meditation; a bearded old man, half-length in frontal view, seated at a table in front of piles of books, his left arm resting on an open book; copy in same direction after an etching by Rembrandt. 1824 Pen and black ink tracing on transparent paper
Producer name: Drawn by: William James Smith; After: Rembrandt
School/style: Dutch; British
Production date: 1824
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 233 millimetres; Width: 203 millimetres
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Curator's comments: One of a group of five copies by W J Smith from etchings by Rembrandt. For an etched copy by Smith of the same Rembrandt etching see also 1934,0402.1. The British Museum does not hold an impression of the original etching.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (11) (Rembrandt; copy undescribed); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (4A) (copy undescribed); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (149) (copy described)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christian saint/martyr
Associated names: Representation of: St Paul
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,0812.1661

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