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Woman at a door hatch talking to a man and children (The Schoolmaster)

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

Etching depicting a woman at a door hatch talking to a man and children, who are in shadows.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Children & Childhood
Object type
print
TitleWoman at a door hatch talking to a man and children (The Schoolmaster) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper (Fiber Product)
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 'Woman at a door hatch talking to a man and children (The Schoolmaster)'. Amsterdam, 1641.
Physical description
Etching depicting a woman at a door hatch talking to a man and children, who are in shadows.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.5cm (Note: Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.)
  • Width: 6.4cm (Note: Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.)
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Rembrandt f 1641.'

    Note
    Signed and dated



  • Note
    Stamped with the mark of the collection of John Heywood Hawkins, M.P. (c.1800-1870/80)(Lugt 1471)

Credit line
Given by Lt.-Col. R. G. Elwes, OBE
Object history
Given by Lt.-Col. R. G. Elwes, OBE.
Another impression is in the Department of Prints and Drawings no.23267.
Subjects depicted
Woman
Man
Children
Associated object
23267 (Copy)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • Bartsch, Adam von. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt (Vienna, 1797).
  • 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).
  • 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.1472-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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