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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,5.86
Description
The blind fiddler; a poor man playing a fiddle with his dog on a lead; posthumous eighth state with coarse heavy reworkings of shadows, before additional cross-hatching on the back of the figure. 1631 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Rembrandt
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1631
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
78 millimetres
Width:
53 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For an earlier impression and comment see 1848,0911.67.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(77.VIII)
(Rembrandt)
Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated
(38.IV)
White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue
(138.III)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
musician
disabled
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Robert Dighton
(L.727; stolen)
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,5.86
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
1973,U.775