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RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design)

Self-portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume · 84.198.1269
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Holder
RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design)
Place
Providence, RI, United States
Accession
84.198.1269
Title as catalogued
Self-portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume
Date as catalogued
1638
Medium as catalogued
Etching on paper
State
Not stated by the institution
Plate
135 x 103 mm ('13.5 x 10.3 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/16 inches) (plate)')
Sheet
Watermark
Collector marks
Provenance
Credit line
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers
Condition
Rights
"This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication"
Checked
2026-08-12 — Project — record read directly from the holding institution's own published record

Transcription notes

The record's IDENTIFICATION, SIGNATURE/INSCRIPTION/MARKS and DIMENSIONS field headings are present but EMPTY - so no state and no catalogue reference may be asserted. A web-search summary claimed 'third state of four' for this impression; that is NOT in the museum record and is rejected. Exhibited 'Past Made Present: Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic' (Sep 2022 - Aug 2023) and 'Rhode Island Collects Paper' (1986). RISD's label copy refers to 'the two versions of Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume', which may indicate a second RISD impression or a loan; not resolved - see open_questions. API route: None. risdmuseum.org serves a Cloudflare block page to curl and WebFetch; retrieved by rendering in a browser.

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