The Pancake Woman, by Rembrandt

An image of The Pancake Woman. Unknown printmaker. After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 110 mm, width, plate, 80 mm; height, sheet, 110 mm, width, sheet, 80 mm, after 1635. Production Note: Reverse copy. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B124 Copy 4; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB35-I Copy 4; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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The Pancake Woman. Unknown printmaker. After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 110 mm, width, plate, 80 mm; height, sheet, 110 mm, width, sheet, 80 mm, after 1635. Production Note: Reverse copy. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B124 Copy 4; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB35-I Copy 4; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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Accession Number: AD.12.39-126
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 751 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 858.39kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:15 11:50:10

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17th Century aged children cook cooking copy after dogs Dutch eating elderly etching female Fitz_PDP food food and drink making pancakes old old woman pancake seller pancakes print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn reverse woman

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