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Rembrandt van Rijn

The Ship of Fortune, 1633

Description

Maker

  • Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-1669, Dutch

Title

The Ship of Fortune

Year

1633

Medium

Etching on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

11.3 x 16.7 cm (4 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered within image, on the boat: "...dt f. 1633" [partly burnished out]

Verso: inscribed in pen and ink: "P. Mariette 1670", the mark of Pierre Mariette II (Paris 1634-1716; Lugt 1788)

No watermark visible

Identification

State

ii/ii

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

53.008

Projects & Publications

Publications

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Ship of Fortune with the accession number of 53.008. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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