IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240022
accession number:	P.14974-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After the painting which is now thought to be by a pupil of Rembrandt (1606-1669), (1646; National Gallery, London, NG47, bought in 1924). A scene in a barn with Mary at the right presenting the Christ child to a pair of kneeling shepherds. The heavily swaddled child is surrounded by a glow which lights up the faces of the central group, Joseph to the left of Mary and two women who hold up an older child so that he can see the baby. More shepherds enter from the left, one carrying a lantern, and a boy with a dog kneels at the far left.
title:	print

NOTES
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type: history note
value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in graphite on the verso presumably relates to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. See, for example, P.14973-R and P.14975-R.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240022





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Bernard, Samuel
maker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn