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Woman with the arrow

Woman with the arrow
1661

Medium
etching, drypoint and plate-tone

Measurements
20.5 × 12.5 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC DBE, Founder Benefactor, 1998

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 202; Hind ii/iii; White & Boon 202 ii/iii; NHD 313 ii/iii

Edition
2nd of 3 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Rembrandt. f. 1661

Accession Number
1998.284

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Watermarks

Watermark Form
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 - variant ZZ. Unidentified reference.

Closely related watermark references
Heawood 1780 (1680, London); Churchill 401 (1625); Wibiral 7b (1660).

Completeness
partial

Chain Line Interval
25-26 mm

Laid Line Frequency
13 per cm

Placement and spacing of wires
51 x 25 [1|25|1] x 25

Wire Side
verso

Radiograph taken from
verso