print
- Museum number
- 1875,1211.230
- Description
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Jan Cornelisz Sylvius, preacher; half-length, facing front, with left arm outstretched; within oval; second state finished before inscription; copy in reverse after Rembrandt. 1757
Etching and drypoint
- Production date
- 1757
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres
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Width: 106 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an impression of the finished state and comment see 1851,0208.290.
This impression is mounted on cardboard together with 1875,1211.231.
For the original etching by Rembrandt see F,6.53.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed on mount, in pencil: "Presented to the Print Room by Messrs. Goupil on their understanding that they were / Museum property pertained by Dighton"; for more information about Dighton's false provenances see An Van Camp, 'Robert Dighton and his spurious collectors' marks on Rembrandt prints in the British Museum, London', in The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013), pp.88-94.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,1211.230