Woman cutting her mistress's nails, after Rembrandt

An image of Woman cutting her mistress's nails. Unknown, after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 126 mm, width, plate, 95 mm; height, sheet, 126 mm, width, sheet, 95 mm, after 1632. Production Note: II/II. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B127 II/II. Biörklund/Barnard; BB Rej. 9 Only state. Lugt; 932.

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Woman cutting her mistress's nails. Unknown, after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 126 mm, width, plate, 95 mm; height, sheet, 126 mm, width, sheet, 95 mm, after 1632. Production Note: II/II. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B127 II/II. Biörklund/Barnard; BB Rej. 9 Only state. Lugt; 932.

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Accession Number: 23.K.5-209
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: 782 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 873.11kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:15 11:44:12

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17th Century aged Bathsheba clothes clothing costume cutting nails dress Dutch elderly etching fashion female Fitz_PDP lady maids maidservant mistress nails old old age print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn servant servants servitude woman

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