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Object Type
Museum number: F,3.3
Title: Series: Six large upright landscapes with scenes from the Old Testament
Description: Zipporah circumcising her son in right foreground, as an angel holds Moses's arm, an inn in right background, at left a stone bridge leading across a stream towards a house at left; from a series of six plates. Etching
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1640-1690
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 296 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 252 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For another impression see S.1753.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (135); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (II.137.135)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Zipporah; Representation of: Moses
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; Previous owner/ex-collection: Robert Dighton (Stolen)
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: Inscribed on verso, in pen and ink, by Robert Dighton: "From the Earl of Butes Sale / 1794 / RD"; 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: F,3.3

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