Accession number:
PML198990.2
Published:
Great Britain, 17 March 1775
Description:
1 print : stipple and soft ground etching ; image: 273 x 213 mm; plate mark: 329 x 229 mm; sheet: 361 x 241 mm
Notes:
Dou's mother is also known as Marritge Jansdr van Rosenburg.
Title supplied by cataloger; dated "17 March 1775" at lower left.
Forms part of a collection of 20 prints by Captain William Baillie, with a title page hand lettered in ink: Collection of prints and etchings by William Baillie & others.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark. .
Inscriptions/Markings:
Inscribed in pencil: G: Dou's mother.
Summary:
Portrait of Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg, the mother of Gerard Dou, after a portrait excuted by Dou in 1638; shown seated half-length directed to right, looking towards the viewer, hands folded in her lap, wearing a ruff and close cap, in an oval frame.
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