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Tobit Reading the Bible to his Wife, Anna (Apocrypha, Book of Tobit)

Drawing
17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Place of origin
Holland (drawn)

On the left of a domestic interior, the bearded figure of Tobit sits reading from an open book to his wife, Anna, who is seated on a four-legged stool at centre, in profile to the left, with her feet supported on a foot-warmer. A cat appears on the right under Anna’s spinning wheel.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleTobit Reading the Bible to his Wife, Anna (Apocrypha, Book of Tobit) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink on paper
Paper
Pen
Brown Ink
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Drawing, 'Tobit Reading the Bible to his Wife, Anna (Apocrypha, Book of Tobit)', copy after Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch School, 17th century
Physical description
On the left of a domestic interior, the bearded figure of Tobit sits reading from an open book to his wife, Anna, who is seated on a four-legged stool at centre, in profile to the left, with her feet supported on a foot-warmer. A cat appears on the right under Anna’s spinning wheel.
Dimensions
  • Height: 110mm
  • Width: 141mm
Dimensions taken from: Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014.
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 433.

  • Inscribed on old Lawrence/Woodburn mount, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 782.

Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445 at lower left); William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617), his sale, London, Christie’s, 17 June 1840, lot 54: ‘Rembrandt. Family of Tobit’ (with lot 55 to ‘Garle’ for
£1. 11s. 6d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Cat
Man
Woman
Book
Cat
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 163, illus. p.216.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.433

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O819409/tobit-reading-the-bible-to-drawing-rembrandt-van-rijn/
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