1593000276000 1578573334000 Standard Record object-240109 1747160871021 1711459768000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-240109 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240109 16063289-f474-30cf-84d0-9dff18a46891 7 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints Head and shoulders of an old, bearded man wearing a tattered and patched coat and a fur hat. Head turned slightly towards the left. A small rat sits on his cloak at the far right, looking out at the viewer. After Cornelis Visscher's large plate, The Rat-Catcher (1655; Hollstein, 50) in which the figure is three-quarter length and standing with his boy and dog in a courtyard. P.15079-R 1 accession number P.15079-R 240109 priref 240109 Wessely (Smith) undescribed Chaloner Smith undescribed Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish) 50 (Cornelis Visscher) uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240109 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240109 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 reference agent-149691 adlib-agent-149691 306d0470-c7ce-3947-ab11-bb4523f40896 VanSittart, Augustus Arthur 1879 1879 1879 given 1683 1683 1683 circa 1683 1729 1 1729 1729 circa 1729 printmaker reference agent-127365 adlib-agent-127365 5cc2e129-5ac6-3218-b54b-a80a1bc2359c Smith, John publisher reference agent-127365 adlib-agent-127365 5cc2e129-5ac6-3218-b54b-a80a1bc2359c Smith, John after printmaker reference agent-141035 adlib-agent-141035 19890e48-df5d-3040-859a-cf8458d70a0c Visscher, Cornelis de Mezzotint. Small plate (140mm x 112mm). Scratched onto the plate in the narrow margin at lower right: 'I S Ex'. Good-sized margins. Hollstein records that Abraham Blooteling made a copy in reverse of the head and shoulders only (Hollstein 50, copy d; Cf. BM: 1843,0513.557). However, this plate is likely to have been Smith's own copy in reverse after Visscher which is mentioned in Hollstein: 'Furthermore eighteenth and nineteenth-century copies by: H.W. Couwenberg, Richard Houston, F. Mecheux, the count of Meluen, J. Smith, D. Sluyter, George Vertue and D. Vrydag.' Cf. NPG D11807. Inscribed in pen and ink on the verso: '2647' and in graphite: 'Vansittart Collection'; '523(3)'; '112'. reference term-136481 adlib-term-136481 ff114b08-4aa4-38d7-be1c-bf772a6edbea 18th Century reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print history note VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in pen and ink on the verso presumably relates to Vansittart's own cataloguing system and the number written in graphite to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print

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