The Plate MarkRembrandt · Bartsch 20

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Princeton University Art Museum

Rembrandt in Velvet Cap · x1949-229
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Holder
Princeton University Art Museum
Place
Princeton, NJ, United States
Accession
x1949-229
Title as catalogued
Rembrandt in Velvet Cap
Date as catalogued
1638
Medium as catalogued
Etching
State
Not stated by the institution
Catalogue references
Bartsch 20; Biorklund and Barnard 38; Hind 156; Hollstein 9; Munz 22; New Hollstein 31.170
Plate
138 x 105
Sheet
138 x 105 (sheet trimmed to plate)
Watermark
Collector marks
Provenance
Bequest of Jessie P. Frothingham
Credit line
Bequest of Jessie P. Frothingham
Condition
Rights
IIIF manifest 'rights' is null; requiredStatement = Attribution: 'Princeton University Art Museum'. No open-access licence asserted.
Checked
2026-08-12 — Project — record read directly from the holding institution's own published record

Transcription notes

Dimension recorded by the museum as 'Plate (sheet trimmed to plate): 13.8 x 10.5 cm'. No state given. NOTE: the record's 'Hollstein 9' appears anomalous against every other institution's 'Hollstein 20'; transcribed as printed, not corrected. Cross-check: Catalogued under a shortened title, but Bartsch 20 + New Hollstein 31.170 + date 1638 make the identification secure. INTERNAL INCONSISTENCY: Princeton's 'Reference Numbers' line (Biorklund and Barnard 38, Hind 156, Munz 22, New Hollstein 31.170, Hollstein 9) disagrees with its own bibliography, which cites Biorklund and Barnard no. 47, Hollstein no. 129, Munz no. 71 and New Hollstein no. 236 p. 144. Only Bartsch 20 and New Hollstein 170 are stable across the record. Also records the largest plate measurement in the census (138 mm), 2-3 mm above every other institution.

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