{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O568794"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568794/"}},"images":null,"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O568794","accessionNumber":"E.337-1959","objectType":"Print","titles":[{"title":"Rembrandt's Wife","type":"assigned by artist"},{"title":"Houghton Gallery","type":"series title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Portrait of an elderly woman wearing a dark cloak with a hood, her hands folded on her lap.  Three-quarter-length, seated, facing slightly left.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Earlom, Richard","id":"A25905"},"association":{"text":"engraver","id":"AAT25165"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Farington, George","id":"A33955"},"association":{"text":"draughtsman","id":"AAT112172"},"note":"after"},{"name":{"text":"Rembrandt van Rijn","id":"A4362"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"J. & J. Boydell","id":"A23406"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"AAT25574"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"mezzotint","id":"AAT53233"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Mezzotint","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[{"text":"Dutch School","id":"x31259"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"PE","shelf":"25","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":"AAT41273"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1788","earliest":"1788-01-01","latest":"1788-12-31"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"01/05/1777","earliest":"1777-05-01","latest":"1777-05-01"},"association":{"text":"dated","id":"AAT54714"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mrs. E. B. Westwood","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"45.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"30.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959</u>. London: HMSO, 1964.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'R. Earlom f.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed"},{"content":"'Rembrandt's Wife.  In the Common Parlour at Houghton.  Rembrandt Pinxit.  G. Farington delint.  Richd. Earlom sculpsit.  John Boydell excudit. Published May 1st. 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered with size of picture and"}],"objectHistory":"This print is a plate from <i>Houghton Gallery</i>, published by John and Josiah Boydell, London, 1788.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Print, portrait of an elderly lady, supposedly Rembrandt's wife, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after George Farington and Rembrandt van Rijn, 1788.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 </u>.  London: HMSO, 1964."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wessely, Joseph Edward.  <u>Richard Earlom</u>.  Hamburg: Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, 1886. 1 p.l., viii, 94 p."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Smith, John Chaloner.  <u>British Mezzotinto Portraits</u>.  London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883."}],"production":"The accession entry states that this print was published as a plate in <i>Houghton Gallery</i> in 1788, but is originally dated on the print May 1st 1777.  George Farington was the intermediary draughtsman.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"woman","id":"AAT25943"},{"text":"elderly","id":"AAT25913"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.337-1959"],"accessionNumberNum":"337","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1959,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}