Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house, by Rembrandt

An image of Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, engraving, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, borderline drawn around edge of sheet, height, plate, 165 mm, width, plate, 129 mm, height, sheet, 169 mm, width, sheet, 133 mm, 1648. Production Note: III/III. Later impression, perhaps reworked by Watelet. Signature and date masked or uninked. Notes(s): The date and signature were masked out on this impression, perhaps to suggest that this constituted a rare first state before Rembrandt etched his name. Middleton believed this to be the work of the widow of the publisher Auguste Jean, who reprinted Rembrandt plates in the 1820s. There is also a counterproof in the Fitzwilliam collection without the name and date - see AD.12.39-60.Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B176 III/III; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB48-C III/III; 1955.

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Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, engraving, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, borderline drawn around edge of sheet, height, plate, 165 mm, width, plate, 129 mm, height, sheet, 169 mm, width, sheet, 133 mm, 1648. Production Note: III/III. Later impression, perhaps reworked by Watelet. Signature and date masked or uninked. Notes(s): The date and signature were masked out on this impression, perhaps to suggest that this constituted a rare first state before Rembrandt etched his name. Middleton believed this to be the work of the widow of the publisher Auguste Jean, who reprinted Rembrandt plates in the 1820s. There is also a counterproof in the Fitzwilliam collection without the name and date - see AD.12.39-60.Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B176 III/III; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB48-C III/III; 1955.

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Accession Number: 23.K.5-254
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: 808 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 835.59kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:22 10:06:47

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17th Century alms babies baby baskets beggar beggars begging caps charitable charity children couple destitute destitution doors doorway drypoint Dutch engraving etching families family Fitz_PDP giving alms hats homeless homes houses husband husband and wife mother mother and child poor poverty print receiving alms Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn residence stick walking stick

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