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Hollstein, “Rembrandt,” <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700</SPAN></EM> (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1969).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>, no. 174","date":1969,"id":6590,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/8532176"},{"boilertext":"E. F. Gersaint and Adam von Bartsch, <em>Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l’oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs</em> (Vienne: A Blumauer, 1797).","citation":"E. F. Gersaint and Adam von Bartsch, <em>Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l’oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs</em> (Vienne: A Blumauer, 1797)., no. 174, pp. 155–156","date":1752,"id":6382,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/323251"},{"boilertext":"Arthur Mayger Hind, <em>Rembrandt's etchings: an essay and a catalogue, with some notes on the drawings</em> (New York: Scribner, 1912).","citation":"Arthur Mayger Hind, <em>Rembrandt's etchings: an essay and a catalogue, with some notes on the drawings</em> (New York: Scribner, 1912)., no. 11","date":0,"id":6452,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/680842597"},{"boilertext":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Erik&nbsp;Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Ger Luijten, ed., \"Rembrandt,\" <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>New Hollstein Dutch &amp; Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 </SPAN></EM>(Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound &amp; Vision Publishers ; Amsterdam: In co-operation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 2013).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>","citation":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Erik&nbsp;Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Ger Luijten, ed., \"Rembrandt,\" <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>New Hollstein Dutch &amp; Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 </SPAN></EM>(Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound &amp; Vision Publishers ; Amsterdam: In co-operation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 2013).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>, no. 50","date":2013,"id":6453,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/844154989"},{"boilertext":"George Biörklund and Osbart H. Barnard, Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False (Stockholm, New York [etc.], 1968).","citation":"George Biörklund and Osbart H. Barnard, Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False (Stockholm, New York [etc.], 1968)., no. 30","date":1968,"id":6474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/10926"},{"boilertext":"Ludwig Münz, <em>Rembrandt's Etchings: Reproductions of the Whole Original Etched Work</em> (London: Phaidon Press, 1952).","citation":"Ludwig Münz, <em>Rembrandt's Etchings: Reproductions of the Whole Original Etched Work</em> (London: Phaidon Press, 1952)., no. 115","date":1952,"id":6476,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1534415"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1600-1700","dateend":1630,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Beggar Seated on a Bank","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1946-326","inscribed":"Initialed and dated in plate, lower center: RHL 1630","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nBeggars were a daily presence in seventeenth-century Holland and were often satirized as objects of fear and disgust. Rembrandt’s more compassionate portrayal of these social outcasts, who figure most prominently in prints from his early years in Leiden (1626–31), occasionally intersects with two themes that occupied him throughout his career: self-portraiture and women with children.</P>\r\nIn this free and wiry etching, Rembrandt lends his own features to a seated vagabond with ragged cloak and scraggly beard, who stretches out his hand to beg as he snarls at us. Unique among Rembrandt’s many exercises in role-playing, this self-identification with the down-and-out has been recently interpreted as a humorous response to the challenge of being a struggling artist who is reduced to begging for recognition from wealthy patrons.</P><B>\r\n</P></B></SPAN>","remarks":"K1-3 April 2017 Rotation\r\n"}],"datebegin":1630,"sortnumber":"1946  326x","published_date":"2026-02-11 07:40:18.239947","objectid":5670,"dimensions":"plate: 11.7 x 7 cm. (4 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)\r\nsheet: 12 x 7.6 cm. 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