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The Triumph of Mordecai

Print
ca. 1641 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (printmaker)
Place of origin
Amsterdam (made)

Etching and drypoint depicting a crowd of people greet a man (Mordecai) on horseback with a turbaned figure in front of him. Through an archway can be seen a building with a cupola. The left of the archway is shaded while the right side of the image is bathed in light.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Religion
Christianity
Object type
print
TitleThe Triumph of Mordecai (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching and drypoint
Printing Ink
Paper
Etching (Printing Process)
Drypoint
Brief description
Etching and drypoint by Rembrandt van Rijn, 'The Triumph of Mordecai'. Amsterdam, ca. 1641.
Physical description
Etching and drypoint depicting a crowd of people greet a man (Mordecai) on horseback with a turbaned figure in front of him. Through an archway can be seen a building with a cupola. The left of the archway is shaded while the right side of the image is bathed in light.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.4cm
  • Width: 21.5cm
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • [collector's mark? JK in circle - unidentified] (Lower left, stamped on back)
  • [watermark 'WR'] (Top centre, sideways on. Resembles base of the Strasburg Bend and Strasburg Lily watermark, see Eric Hinterding, Rembrandt the Printmaker. But there is no adjoining line running up from the W.)
Gallery label
In the left-hand corner of this print the white spine which stands up in relief between the central furrow and the burr of the dry-point line can be seen with the naked eye. Printmaking Techniques Gallery, Henry Cole Wing(1983)
Subjects depicted
Crowds
Horse
Turbans
Hats
Cape
Fur
Building
Archway
Dagger
Spears
Mordecai
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • Bartsch, Adam von. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt (Vienna, 1797). B.40
  • 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).
  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. (London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923), p. 86.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich), 1888-1957. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949-), vol. 18-19.
  • Eric Hinterding. Rembrandt the Printmaker. 9London: British Museum Press, 2000).
  • Blanc, Charles, L'œuvre complet de Rembrandt, décrit et commenté, (Paris, 1859-61).
  • Biörklund George. Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated , (Stockholm, London & Paris, 1955) (2nd ed. 1968).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.66-1896

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Record createdAugust 17, 2005
Record URL
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