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He is watched by a younger man seated at the table to the left. A pair of globes are seen in the foreground to the left."}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"P.15028-R","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"P.15028-R"},{"priref":"240090","type":"priref","value":"240090"},{"type":"Goodwin (McArdell)","value":"213.II"},{"type":"Alexander (Rembrandt)","value":"107.III\/IV (p.135)"},{"type":"Charrington (Rembrandt)","value":"107.III\/IV (pp.84-5)"},{"type":"Chaloner Smith","value":"undescribed (listed by annotation, p.907)"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/240090","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/240090"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879"},"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149691","uid":"adlib-agent-149691","uuid":"306d0470-c7ce-3947-ab11-bb4523f40896"},"summary_title":"VanSittart, Augustus Arthur"}],"date":[{"earliest":1879,"latest":1879,"value":"1879"}],"method":{"value":"given"}}],"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1740,"from":{"earliest":1740,"latest":1740,"precision":"circa","value":"1740"},"latest":1765,"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1765,"latest":1765,"precision":"circa","value":"1765"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"printmaker"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-89519","uid":"adlib-agent-89519","uuid":"ea3158a3-a006-3779-8563-872e5de078ec"},"summary_title":"McArdell, James"},{"@link":{"qualifier":"after","role":[{"value":"painter"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-113833","uid":"adlib-agent-113833","uuid":"ef1c47a3-1a8a-3219-9f41-3a875cfe087c"},"summary_title":"Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn"}],"note":[{"value":"Mezzotint, same direction. Lower edge of the inscription and platemark trimmed away. State after inscription. Engraved with title and artist's name in italics, closed roman uppercase and gothic lettering: 'The Mathematician \/ Done form the ORIGINAL PICTURE painted by REMBRANDT. \/ By James McArdell'. Inscribed on the verso in graphite: 'Vansittart Collection'; '311'. See also impressions of first and second states; P.5839-R and P.5922-R."}],"periods":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-136481","uid":"adlib-term-136481","uuid":"ff114b08-4aa4-38d7-be1c-bf772a6edbea"},"summary_title":"18th Century"}]}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-98032","uid":"adlib-term-98032","uuid":"82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea"},"summary_title":"print"}}],"note":[{"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 on the verso in graphite presumably relates to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. A curatorial annotation in the FM copy of Chaloner Smith (p.907) lists 'The Mathematican' as '202' and gives the Goodwin reference 'G G 213'."}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"school_or_style":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-8402","uid":"adlib-term-8402","uuid":"18ed0f08-54b5-3bda-9753-b3d0a4d71d4e"},"summary_title":"Irish"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-98032","uid":"adlib-term-98032","uuid":"82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea"},"summary_title":"print"}},"summary_title":"print","techniques":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-29420","uid":"adlib-term-29420","uuid":"cdde8bbf-3351-30b6-a408-35afb32359aa"},"summary_title":"mezzotint"}}],"title":[{"value":"The Mathematician"},{"type":"assigned","value":"The Mathematician, a Scholar with Dividers and a Set Square at a Table in His Study Attended by a Pupil"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}