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Object Type
print
Museum number
1874,0711.2092
Title
Object:
Rembrandt's Frame Maker
Description
Portrait of Herman Doomer, half-length directed to right but looking towards the viewer, wearing buttoned jacket and ruff, with small beard and his hand in his jacket, wearing wide-brimmed hat; scratched-letter proof with artist's names only; after Rembrandt. 1769 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
John Dixon
After:
Rembrandt
School/style
British
Dutch
Production date
1769
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
506 millimetres
(trimmed?)
Width:
358 millimetres
(trimmed?)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
After a painting by Rembrandt dated around 1640 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Havemeyer Collection), New York, inv.no.29.100.1 (Bredius 217).
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(40)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(40.I)
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2005 / A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings
(III.A.140)
(graphic reproduction 3)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Herman Doomer
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
H G Gutekunst
Acquisition date
1874
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1874,0711.2092