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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1957,0214.1
Description: Self-portrait of Rembrandt, leaning on a stone sill and wearing a cap, half- length directed to left but facing front; copy in same direction after Rembrandt Chalk and bodycolour
Producer name: Drawn by: Edward Lutterell; After: Rembrandt
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1673-1723
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 328 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For the original etching by Rembrandt see Hind 168 (1868,0808.3177). Lit.: C. T. Seifert, 'Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master' Edinburgh, exh.cat. 2018, no. 103.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (171) (Rembrandt; copy undescribed); Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (7); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (168) (copy undescribed); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (21) (copy undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2018 7 Jul-14 Oct, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, "Rembrandt & Britain"
Associated names: Portrait of: Rembrandt
Acquisition name: Purchased from: H Cooper & W Lilly
Acquisition date: 1957
Acquisition notes: This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1957,0214.1
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Dec 2002

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