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Old woman seated in a cottage, with a string of onions on the wall

Print
1824 (made), 1825 (published)
Artist/Maker
Smith, Willam James (made)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Smith, Willam James (printmaker)
Cooke, William Bernard (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Etching depicting an old woman seated, facing left with her hands together. There is a string of onions on the wall to the left.


Object details

Categories
Copies and Facsimilies
Prints
Object type
print
Titles
  • Old woman seated in a cottage, with a string of onions on the wall (published title)
  • Twelve Facsimile Etchings from very rare Originals by Rembrandt Van Ryn in the Cracherode Collection at the British Museum (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Printing Ink
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
Etching by William James Smith, 'Old woman seated in a cottage, with a string of onions on the wall', after a work by Rembrandt, from 'Twelve Facsimile Etchings', published by William Bernard Cooke, London, 1824.
Physical description
Etching depicting an old woman seated, facing left with her hands together. There is a string of onions on the wall to the left.
Dimensions
  • Print height: 12.4cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Print width: 8.7cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Volume height: 33.3cm
  • Volume width: 23.7cm
  • Volume depth: 1.3cm
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
Rt. 1631 (Signed and dated)
Subjects depicted
Woman
Onion
Associated object
E.1295:7-1887 (Copy)
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • White, Christopher and Boon, Karel G. Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue in Two Volumes, I. Text. (Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co; London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1969).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5066-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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