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Samuel Manasseh Ben Israel

Samuel Manasseh Ben Israel
1636

Medium
etching

Measurements
13.3 × 10.6 cm (image) 14.9 × 10.7 cm (plate) 15.6 × 11.4 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 269; Hind 146 ii/iii; White & Boon 269 iii/iii

Edition
3rd of 3 states

Accession Number
531-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Watermarks

Watermark Form
Arms of Amsterdam
 

The Arms of Amsterdam motif was a popular watermark in the Netherlands and closely resembles the city's coat of arms today. The three Saint Andrew's crosses represent Amsterdam, and the two rampant lions represent the Netherlands. It is likely this paper was manufactured in France for the Dutch market, as many papers of this time were imported to the Netherlands from nearby countries.

Watermark and variant description
Arms of Amsterdam - variant D.c. Shield with three vertical fields, three St Andrew's crosses vertically in the central one. The shield supported by two lions rampant and surmounted by a crown with no decorations on the outside of the crown. The bottom of the shield level with lions' feet. The lions are not standing on a platform.

Closely related watermark references
Churchill 56 (1768), 69 (ND) Heawood 400 (The Hague (city in Netherlands), 1724 or after, endpapers); Tromonin 865 (1721, Stamped paper); Likhachev (1710, stamped papers, St Petersburg).

Completeness
partial

Chain Line Interval
24-25 mm

Laid Line Frequency
10 per cm

Placement and spacing of wires
? x 12|25|13 x 12

Wire Side
verso

Radiograph taken from
verso