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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,6.200
Title
Series:
Crafts and Trades
Description
The bricklayers; a male figure laying bricks next to the wooden frames for the door and window at right, a figure at left mixing mortar. 1635 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Jan van Vliet
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1635
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
209 millimetres
Width:
162 millimetres
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of eighteen, for comment see F,6.197. For an impression of second state see S.204.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(35.I)
Bartsch-Claussin 1797-1828 / Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes de Rembrandt (plus Supplement)
(II.96.35)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
builder/bricklayer
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(probably)
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition notes
with no visible mark of provenance on the verso, but this fits with Sloane, not Cracherode
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,6.200
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
1973,U.1541