Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Rembrandt1659

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Title: Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date Created: 1659
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower center: “Rembrandt f. 1659”
Print State: Second of four states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper. Watermark: Foolscap as “Foolscap with Seven-Pointed Collar C.b.” Ash and Fletcher’s Concordance (p. 117)
Keywords: Bible, illness, New Testament, print states, religions, religious art, Saint John, Saint Peter, saints, temples
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 179 mm x 217 mm (7.05 in. x 8.54 in.). Sheet dimensions: 182 mm x 219 mm (7.17 in. x 8.62 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 94; Hind 301; White and Boon second of four states. For student research on the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings’ watermarks vis-à-vis Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file “Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.”
Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.213

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