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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3283
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Lieven Williamsz. van Coppenol, Writing Master: The Larger Plate
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1658
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279656

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, engraving, and drypoint with plate tone on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching, engraving and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 34.2 × 28.7 cm (13 7/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center and upper right, brown ink, probably in the same hand: H / N/..
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 3283
  • inscription: verso, graphite: fr. Ev. Debr. 56 / [pound sign]31.10/ [Gray acquisition information: acquired from Evans, London, December 1856 for 30 guineas]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 263
  • watermark: IHS [with a crown above the Latin cross; Hinterding v. 2, p. 158, C.a., unidentified twinmark. No IHS papers appear inHinterding's chronological listing of Rembrandt's papers, suggesting that this is a posthumous impression.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/ix
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 306, Bartsch 283, Hind 300, R,. 283

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3283
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This print is made from the larger plate

Publication History

  • Tom Rassieur and George S. Keyes, Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship, exh. cat., Skira Rizzoli (New York, NY, 2011), p. 61, repr. p. 61 as fig. 28

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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