Physical Qualities
Etching, drypoint, and engraving, Sheet: 215 x 286 mm. (8 7/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 213 x 284 mm. (8 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.7810
Rembrandt created this print by reworking a copper plate on which Seghers had etched "Tobias and the Angel" (c. 1620s), a landscape showing Tobias and the angel at the right of the image. Rembrandt made numerous changes to the plate, most notably scraping away Seghers' figures of Tobias and the angel and replacing them with smaller-scale figures of Mary and the Christ Child riding on a donkey, accompanied by Joseph. Seghers' original etching of "Tobias and the Angel" was freely adapted from an engraving by Hendrik Goudt after a painting by Adam Elsheimer.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, 8 February - 25 May 2011.
"Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible," North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2002- February 23, 2003.
BMA, "The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Collection," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Rembrandt: The Museum's Collection," 15 January - 21 April, 1991.
"Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible," North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2002- February 23, 2003.
BMA, "The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Collection," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Rembrandt: The Museum's Collection," 15 January - 21 April, 1991.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: none
Markings: CM: Karl Eduard van Liphart (Lugt 1687); unidentified "E." (Lugt 823); Claghorn
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