print
- Museum number
- F,5.151
- Description
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Woman with the arrow; Cleopatra seated nude on a bed holding an arrow, whole-length seen from behind, body turned to right, a man's face (Mark Antony?) seen on the bed in the shadows at left; second state with cross-hatching added on the woman's cheek and to the area between her feet and sleeve, with cross-hatching above the left ankle partly removed by burnishing, the shadow of the feet darkened with fine hatching, before the small triangular area of white above and to the right of the date has been shaded over, before the signature has been redrawn. 1661
Etching, drypoint and burin, with surface tone
Watermark: Strasbourg lily (Hinterding catalogue, variant ZZ.zz)
- Production date
- 1661
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 124 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment and an impression of first state see also 1848,0911.102.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 Jun-Sep, Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, Rembrant's Women
2001 Sep-Dec, London, Royal Academy, Rembrandt's Women
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed on verso, in pencil, by Robert Dighton: "Bt at Langford's / 1759 / J.D. [John 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
- F,5.151
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1973,U.1139
