IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240037 accession number: P.14990-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680), (1651; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg [as 'Portrait of an old woman with the bible on her lap'] acquired in 1779 from the Robert Walpole collection at Houghton Hall, ??-763). An old woman, three quarter length and seated towards the left, looking out at the spectator. She wears a dark cloak around her shoulders fastened with a jewelled clasp and her head is covered with a piece of dark cloth or hood. A large book lies open on her lap, a pair of eyeglasses held in her right hand resting on the right-hand pages. Another large book is seen on a table to the left. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: The inscription '73 / Kerrich' written onto this print by a past curator may relate to a handwritten Museum register of loose Kerrich prints, possibly to the 'portfolio marked PB' in which 72 loose prints are listed. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240037 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Earlom, Richard maker: Boydell, John maker: Farington, George maker: Bol, Ferdinand