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Object Type
Museum number: F,5.154
Description: The Omval; gnarled tree beside River Amstel with a man standing on a bank at right, ferries beyond, a town and wind-mills in background; modern defacement with playing-cards superimposed on scene; eight of clubs and figures of milkmaids and child blowing bubbles. 1645 Etching and drypoint, the playing-cards hand-coloured Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (Hinterding catalogue, variant A.b.)
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School/style
Production date: 1645
Materials
Technique: etching; drypoint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 185 millimetres; Width: 227 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For an impression of the second state and comment see 1868,0822.675.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (221.III) (Rembrandt); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (210.III); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (209.III); Hinterding et al. 2000 / Rembrandt the Printmaker (50); Willshire 1879-1883 / A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish Schools (Dutch 115)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: tree/bush; card-playing
Associated places: Topographic representation of: River Amstel
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: 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,5.154

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