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A man making water

Print
1816 (published), 1730-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching depicting a figure standing to the right and urinating


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • A man making water (published title)
  • A Collection of Original Etchings (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Etching by F. Vivares, 'A man making water', copy in reverse, after a work by Rembrandt, from a volume comprising a collection of etchings by various artists, published by McCreery, London, 1816
Physical description
Etching depicting a figure standing to the right and urinating
Dimensions
  • Print height: 8.4cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Print width: 4.9cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Volume height: 43.4cm
  • Volume width: 28.1cm
  • Volume depth: 2.9cm
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'F.V. fecit' (Signed)
  • 'RHL 1631' (Monogram and dated)
  • '3' (numbered)
Subjects depicted
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).
  • Taken from the Register of Engravings 12810-13608
Collection
Accession number
13614:3

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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