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Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher'

Print
1753-69 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching depicting an interior scene with a bearded man wearing a fur-lined cloak, seated at a table with scales, writing in an opened book. He is handing a bag to a boy kneeling to his left


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleJan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher' (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Etching by Captain William Baillie, 'Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher'', after a work by Rembrandt. London, 1753-69
Physical description
Etching depicting an interior scene with a bearded man wearing a fur-lined cloak, seated at a table with scales, writing in an opened book. He is handing a bag to a boy kneeling to his left
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.9cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Width: 20.2cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
'WB and Rembrandt f 1639 Silicet improbae/Crescunt divitiae; ...' (Signed with monogram)
Object history
Jan Uytenbogaert (1608-1680) was Holland's Receiver-General, or chief tax collector.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
20406:49 (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
Accession number
20406:48

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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