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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12904
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
The Omval
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1645
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262280

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint with plate tone on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 18.5 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Rembrant
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Rembrandt 1643
  • watermark: center: WK [not in Hinterding, but see v. 2, p. 95, WK', where six other impressions of this print are listed with this countermark. This is a Strasbourg lily paper that Hinterding dates, p. 380, to c. 1652.]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 12,904
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Ca[illeg.]/D[illeg.]15 Wilson/No 209 / No. 209.
  • inscription: verso, red chalk: O [in a circle, struck through]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 221, Bartsch 209, Hind 210

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arnold Knapp
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
M12904
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist (unnumbered)

Exhibition History

  • Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000

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