Terms and conditions of use
St Francis beneath a tree, praying
1657
- Medium
- drypoint and etching
- Measurements
- 17.9 × 24.4 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 107; HInd 292 ii/ii; White & Boon 107 ii/ii; NHD 299 ii/ii
- Edition
- 2nd of 2 states
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.r.: Rembrandt. [illeg.] 1657; over earlier signature: l.r.: Rembrandt f. 1657.
- Accession Number
- 2003.442
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
From the collection of James O. Fairfax AO, Honorary Life Benefactor - Presented through the NGV Foundation by Bridgestar Pty Ltd, 2003
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
Watermarks
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- Watermark Form
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Strasbourg lily
- The Strasbourg lily watermark shows a shield with a fleur-de-lis surmounted by a crown. There are many variants of the Strasbourg lily motif used by papermakers in Strasbourg, and some variants have also been connected to South-West France from the mid-17th century onward.
- Watermark and variant description
- Strasbourg lily E'.a.b. Fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield. The central petal rounded. View into the bottom of the crown . The shield with straight sides, a flat top, and singles horns in the crown. Chain line through the centre of the watermark, the initials PR, double-wired, below. The countermark is WK'.a.
- Related watermarks in the NGV collection
- The countermark to Strasbourg lily variant E'.a.b is WK'.a and is found in the paper of NGVs Rembrandt impression The Omval.
- Closely related watermark references
- Heawood 1663 (1646. Amsterdam), 1667 (1646, Brussels, printed document); Wibiral 6a-6b; Voorn 23
- Completeness
- complete
- Chain Line Interval
- 23-26 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 11 per cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- 127 x 1 [22|22|21] x 5
- Wire Side
- verso
- Radiograph taken from
- verso
