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Object Type
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6578
Description: The discovered false step; interior of a house with a young woman crying at left, a man kneeling in front of her parents, seated at a table at right, other figures beyond, a fire-place in background; after Jan Steen? Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Brakenburgh; After: Jan Havicksz. Steen (according to Weigel); After: Nicolaes Walraven van Haeften (formerly attributed by Wurzbach); After: Egbert van Heemskerck I (formerly attributed by Wurzbach)
School/style
Production date: 1665-1702
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 140 millimetres; Width: 126 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1); Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon (unnumbered) (described on p.170)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
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.6578
Additional IDs: Other BM number: S.6578

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