FILTER RESULTS × Close
Skip to Content ☰ Open Filter >>

Object Results


Image: Faust

Photo Credit: photo: R. Lee
View
Zoomable Image

Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/12029

Faust

ca. 1652
17th century
210 x 160 mm (8.3 x 6.3 in.)

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, (1606–1669)

Alternative title: Dr. Faustus
Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper
State: Second of three states
Print impression quality: Very good
Marks: Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (not listed in Ash and Fletcher Concordance for this print)
Bibliography: Bartsch 270; H. 260; White and Boon second of three 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, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Accession Number: 1947.D1.212

Keywords Click a term to view the records with the same keyword
This object has the following keywords:
  • Faust (character)
  • genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
  • literature (writings)
  • occult sciences - Range of studies, theories, and practices involving a belief in and knowledge or use of supernatural forces or beings, the goal of practice being the manipulation or subversion of natural laws to achieve some desired purpose. [November 1994 related term added. October 1994 scope note added; lead-in terms added; alternate term added. July 1994 related term added. January 1994 related term added.]
  • religious art - Use broadly for art depicting religious subjects or for art used in worship. [September 1993 descriptor added.]

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm (8.3 x 6.3 in.)

DAC Downloadable Open Access Image

Please see the DAC Open Access Images Policy and ReadMe PDF. This policy is similar to the concise No Known Copyright statement at RightsStatements.org.

To download an image, control-click or right-click on a link below, then select "Download," "Save Link," or a similar choice in your web browser.

DAC Open Access Image: JPEG, < 2 MB (Help)

DAC Open Access Image: TIFF, ~20-40 MB (Help)

Please use this image credit line:
Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee) .

Portfolio List Click a portfolio name to view all the objects in that portfolio
This object is a member of the following portfolios:


Your search criteria: Keyword is "BQMF" and [Objects]Century is "17th century".

View current selection of records as: