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Landscape with a cow

Print
1770 (published)
Artist/Maker
Smith, John (print-makers)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Boydell, John (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Etching depicting a landscape with a cottage surrounded by trees beside a river. There is a cow drinking from the river on the left with another in the field behind.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Animals and Wildlife
Rural Life
Copies and Facsimiles
Object type
print
Titles
  • Landscape with a cow (published title)
  • A Collection of Fifty-Three Prints, consisting of Etchings and Engravings by those ingenious artists Messrs. George and John Smith of Chichester, After thier own Paintings and other Masters (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper (Fiber Product)
Printing Ink
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
Etching by John Smith, 'Landscape with a cow', copy of second state in reverse, after a work by Rembrandt, from a volume comprising a collection of etchings and engravings by George and John Smith of Chichester, London, 1770
Physical description
Etching depicting a landscape with a cottage surrounded by trees beside a river. There is a cow drinking from the river on the left with another in the field behind.
Dimensions
  • Print height: 11cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Print width: 12.8cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Volume height: 37cm
  • Volume width: 29.5cm
Production typeCopy
Subjects depicted
Cows
Cottage
Trees
Associated objects
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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5001-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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