print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.182
- Description
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An old woman reading or 'Rembrandt's mother as the Prophetess Anna'; whole-length female figure, seated to left, wearing a thick fur coat and with a book placed on her lap; after Rembrandt. c.1631
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1631 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 276 millimetres (Plate-mark)
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is second state before publisher's address, for other impressions see also S.181 and 1981,U.398. For an impression of third state see S.183.
After the painting by Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no.A3066 (Bredius 69).
Lit.: C. Schuckman, M. Royalton-Kisch and E. Hinterding, 'Rembrandt & Van Vliet: A Collaboration on Copper', Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1996, cat. 4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.182
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.182