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Twelve Facsimile Etchings from very rare Originals by Rembrandt Van Ryn in the Cracherode Collection at the British Museum

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

Etching depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a child sleeping


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Copies and Facsimiles
Object type
print
Titles
  • Twelve Facsimile Etchings from very rare Originals by Rembrandt Van Ryn in the Cracherode Collection at the British Museum (series title)
  • A child asleep (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Printing Ink
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
Etching by William James Smith, 'A child asleep', copy after a work by an unknown pupil of Rembrandt, from 'Twelve Facsimile Etchings', published by William Bernard Cooke, London, 1824.
Physical description
Etching depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a child sleeping
Dimensions
  • Height: 3.7cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Width: 4cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
Production typeCopy
Subjects depicted
Child's Head
Pillows
Associated object
E.5077-1903 (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.1295:3-1887

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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