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Joseph and Potiphar's wife
Printmaker:
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Printmaker:
Unknown
(Reworked)
Method of acquisition: Transferred (1876) by Cambridge University Library
17th Century#
Production date:
AD 1634
Counterproof. Printed on mould side of paper. Posthumous impression, after fine mechanical parallel shading was added with a mezzotint rocker to most shadowy areas, not by Rembrandt. Border completed in pen-and-ink.
Support
composed of
laid paper
( chainlines horizontal (c. 25mm))
Sheet
Height 104 mm
Width 128 mm
Plate
Height 91 mm
Width 115 mm
Pen and ink
Counterproof
Engraving
Etching
Inscription present: Lugt 2475
Accession number: AD.12.38-116
Primary reference Number: 48136
New Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 128 II/IV
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): B39 I(?)/II
Biörklund/Barnard: BB34-G I/II
Old location number: 38.5.4Aa
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 1876.12.16-10
Accession Number: 1178 (b)
Accession Number: PD.53-1993
Accession Number: 31.K.12-65
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