- Museum number
- 1874,0808.1051
- Description
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Boy seated and copying the head of the Emperor Vitellius; the boy is surrounded by the paraphenalia of a draughtsman: sticks of charcoal; a rolled sheet of paper etc
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1660-1675
- Dimensions
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Height: 333 millimetres
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Width: 269 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- After the painting by Sweerts in the Institute of Arts, Minneapolis (inv. 13-937; R.Kultzen, 'Michael Sweerts', Ghent, 1996, no. 75).
Lit.: C. Ackley, 'Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh.cat. 1981, no.190; E. de Jongh and G. Luijten, 'Mirror of Everyday Life: Genreprints in the Netherlands 1550-1700', ex.cat., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no.74; A. Griffiths (ed.), 'Landmarks in Print Collecting, Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum since 1753', BM, 1996, cat.no.53.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996 Apr-Jun, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996 Jul-Sep, LA, Huntington Library and AG, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996, Oct-Dec, Baltimore, Museum of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1997 Jan-Apr, Minneapolis, Inst of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
2003/4 Sep-Jan, Tarragona, Sala Tarragona, Masters of Printmaking from BM
2004 Feb-April, Palma, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters of Printmaking from BM
2004 April-July, Lleida, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters of Printmaking from BM
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.1051