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Self portrait with Saskia

Print
1816 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching depicting a man wearing a hat with a feather facing the viewer, sitting to the right of a table either drawing or writing. A woman sits behind, turned slightly to the left, facing the viewer.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Self portrait with Saskia (published title)
  • A Collection of Original Etchings (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Etching by Chevalier Ignace Joseph De Claussin entitled 'Self portrait with Saskia', 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 man wearing a hat with a feather facing the viewer, sitting to the right of a table either drawing or writing. A woman sits behind, turned slightly to the left, facing the viewer.
Dimensions
  • Print height: 10cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Print width: 9.1cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Volume height: 43.4cm
  • Volume width: 28.1cm
  • Volume depth: 2.9cm
Production typeCopy
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • White, Christopher, and Karel G Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue in Two Volumes, I. Text. Van Gendt: Amsterdam, 1969. p.8.
  • Taken from the Register of Engravings 12810-13608
Collection
Accession number
13613:5

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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