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Landscape with a cottage and a large tree

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

Etching depicting a landscape with a cottage and a large tree beside a river. There is a tower and windmill in the distance on the left.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Landscapes
Rural Life
Copies and Facsimiles
Object type
print
Titles
  • Landscape with a cottage and a large tree (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 probably by John Smith, 'Landscape with a cottage and a large tree', copy 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 and a large tree beside a river. There is a tower and windmill in the distance on the left.
Dimensions
  • Print cut to height: 12.6cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Print cut to width: 31.6cm (Note: Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue)
  • Volume height: 37cm
  • Volume width: 29.5cm
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
Rembrandt f 1641 (Signed and dated)
Subjects depicted
Cottages
Tree
Rivers
Windmills
Associated object
CAI.620 (Original)
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.4980-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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