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The images array lists the planned views and their status; none of them has a file behind it yet." }, "authority_identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ULAN", "id": "500011051", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500011051", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty Linked-Art JSON returned _label 'Rembrandt van Rijn', born 1606 Leiden, active 1631-1669 Amsterdam." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "id": "Q5598", "url": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5598", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Wikidata entity search returned Q5598, 'Dutch painter and printmaker (1606-1669)'." }, { "scheme": "RKDartists", "id": "66219", "url": "https://data.rkd.nl/artists/66219", "label": "Rembrandt", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "data.rkd.nl returned CIDOC-CRM RDF with rdfs:label 'Rembrandt'." }, { "scheme": "LCNAF", "id": "n79142935", "url": "https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142935", "label": "Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "id.loc.gov MADS-RDF JSON returned authoritativeLabel 'Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669'." }, { "scheme": "ISNI", "id": "0000000121363802", "url": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000121363802", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Verified indirectly. isni.org refuses non-browser clients (HTTP 403); the Library of Congress record for n79142935 asserts madsrdf:identifiesRWO to this URI and Wikidata P213 agrees." }, { "scheme": "GND", "id": "11859964X", "url": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/11859964X", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Verified indirectly, by the Library of Congress record's madsrdf:identifiesRWO assertion and Wikidata P227. d-nb.info was not itself fetched." }, { "scheme": "VIAF", "id": "64013650", "url": "https://viaf.org/viaf/64013650", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": false, "verification_note": "NOT VERIFIED. viaf.org returns HTTP 403 to programmatic clients and its JSON routes now 404 after OCLC re-platformed the service. The number comes from Wikidata P214 alone and needs a manual browser check." }, { "scheme": "FAST", "id": "47043", "url": "https://id.worldcat.org/fast/47043", "label": "Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": false, "verification_note": "NOT VERIFIED. Asserted by the Library of Congress as a close external authority, but the FAST endpoint returned recordNotFound." }, { "scheme": "BnF", "id": "11940484n", "url": "https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11940484n", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": false, "verification_note": "NOT VERIFIED. From Wikidata P268 only; catalogue.bnf.fr was not fetched." }, { "scheme": "ArtUK", "id": "rembrandt-van-rijn-16061669", "url": "https://artuk.org/discover/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn-16061669", "label": "Rembrandt van Rijn", "applies_to": "artist", "verified": false, "verification_note": "NOT VERIFIED. From Wikidata P1367 only; artuk.org was not fetched." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "id": "Q65024742", "url": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65024742", "label": "Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume", "applies_to": "work_concept", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Wikidata Special:EntityData confirmed P31 print, P170 Rembrandt (Q5598), P571 1638, P2079 etching, P136 self-portrait, P217 1943.3.7201. Identifies the work and the plate, not this impression." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300053241", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300053241", "label": "etching (printing process)", "applies_to": "technique", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty preferred label returned verbatim." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300053228", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300053228", "label": "drypoint (printing process)", "applies_to": "technique", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty SPARQL. Recorded because the medium claim reads 'etching, possibly with drypoint' — the concept is carried, the claim's uncertainty is carried with it." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300041365", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041365", "label": "etchings (prints)", "applies_to": "object_type", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty preferred label returned verbatim." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300041273", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041273", "label": "prints (visual works)", "applies_to": "object_type", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty Linked-Art JSON. Broader concept of 'etchings (prints)'." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300014184", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300014184", "label": "laid paper", "applies_to": "material", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty SPARQL exact preferred-label match." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300124534", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124534", "label": "self-portraits", "applies_to": "genre", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty SPARQL exact preferred-label match; broader concept 'portraits'." }, { "scheme": "AAT", "id": "300131119", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300131119", "label": "printmaking", "applies_to": "technique", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Getty SPARQL exact preferred-label match." } ], "work_concept": { "note": "The Wikidata item below identifies the work and the plate, not this sheet. This record makes no sameAs assertion between the two: many impressions exist and they are different objects.", "scheme": "Wikidata", "id": "Q65024742", "url": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65024742", "applies_to": "work_concept", "label": "Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume", "verified": true, "verification_note": "Wikidata Special:EntityData confirmed P31 print, P170 Rembrandt (Q5598), P571 1638, P2079 etching, P136 self-portrait, P217 1943.3.7201. Identifies the work and the plate, not this impression." }, "claims": [ { "id": "CL-ARTIST", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Artist", "value": "Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669)", "confidence": "probable", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": "Bonhams, as cataloguer", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "An examination by a specialist in Old Master prints concluding that the sheet is a later restrike from Rembrandt's plate, a reproduction after the composition, or a copy by another hand. Any of these would keep the composition and change the object.", "note": "The attribution here is the auction house's. The project does not itself attribute, and it does not treat an auction attribution as settled. What is being claimed at 'probable' is that the sheet is an impression from Rembrandt's plate; the question of when it was printed is separate and open.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "tier": "auction_catalogue", "kind": "catalogue_record", "title": "Auction catalogue entry for the lot as offered, Bonhams New York, 2023", "author": "Bonhams", "date": "2023", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "on_request", "access_note": "The published lot page has not yet been located in the house's online archive. See research question RQ-08.", "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "An auction catalogue is a working attribution by a cataloguer under time pressure, not a scholarly determination. It is recorded here as a source, and its statements are carried as claims at the confidence the source supports — no higher." }, { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-TITLE", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Title", "value": "Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume", "confidence": "probable", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Alignment with the title used in the New Hollstein catalogue and by the major print rooms, which may differ.", "note": "Titles of Rembrandt's etchings are conventions applied by cataloguers, not by Rembrandt. Different catalogues and print rooms use different ones for the same plate. The census records each institution's own title verbatim rather than imposing one.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-DATE", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Date of the plate", "value": "1638", "confidence": "probable", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": "Bonhams, as cataloguer", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Nothing likely; the date of the plate is well established in the literature for this composition.", "note": "This is the date Rembrandt worked the plate. It is NOT the date this sheet was printed. The two can be separated by decades or centuries, and separating them is the central open question about this object.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "tier": "auction_catalogue", "kind": "catalogue_record", "title": "Auction catalogue entry for the lot as offered, Bonhams New York, 2023", "author": "Bonhams", "date": "2023", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "on_request", "access_note": "The published lot page has not yet been located in the house's online archive. See research question RQ-08.", "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "An auction catalogue is a working attribution by a cataloguer under time pressure, not a scholarly determination. It is recorded here as a source, and its statements are carried as claims at the confidence the source supports — no higher." }, { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-PRINTING-DATE", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Date of printing of this sheet", "value": "Unknown", "confidence": "unknown", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Identification of the paper's watermark against a dated reference; chain-line measurement compared against dated impressions; assessment of plate wear against securely dated impressions in institutional collections.", "note": "The single most consequential unknown about this sheet. Rembrandt's plates continued to be printed long after his death. Until the paper is examined, this record makes no claim about when the impression was pulled.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR", "tier": "physical_observation", "kind": "opinion", "title": "No conservator examination has taken place", "author": null, "date": "2026-08-12", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "Recorded as an explicit negative so that the absence is visible in the record rather than inferred from silence. No paper conservator has examined the sheet, and no technical imaging has been carried out." } ] }, { "id": "CL-CATREF-BARTSCH", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Catalogue reference (Bartsch)", "value": "Bartsch 20", "confidence": "probable", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Direct comparison of the composition against the Bartsch entry and against institutional records carrying the same number.", "note": null, "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-CATREF-NH", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "identification", "field": "Catalogue reference (New Hollstein)", "value": "New Hollstein 170", "confidence": "probable", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Consultation of the New Hollstein Rembrandt volumes themselves. The project does not currently hold a copy.", "note": "New Hollstein is the current standard catalogue for this material and its numbering is what a print room will expect. 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Whether drypoint is present on this plate, and whether burr survives in this particular impression, are two different questions — the second is a wear indicator and bears directly on when the sheet was printed.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. 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It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-WATERMARK", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "material_technique", "field": "Watermark", "value": "Not yet examined", "confidence": "unknown", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Transmitted-light imaging. A trimmed sheet may carry only a fragment of a watermark, or none at all — a null result here is a real result and will be recorded as one.", "note": null, "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR", "tier": "physical_observation", "kind": "opinion", "title": "No conservator examination has taken place", "author": null, "date": "2026-08-12", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "Recorded as an explicit negative so that the absence is visible in the record rather than inferred from silence. No paper conservator has examined the sheet, and no technical imaging has been carried out." } ] }, { "id": "CL-STATE", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "state", "field": "State", "value": "Recorded as state III, without signature", "confidence": "possible", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE" ], "stated_by": "Working record, following the acquisition documentation", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Comparison of the diagnostic features of this impression against the state descriptions in the standard catalogue and against dated institutional impressions.", "note": "The working record describes this as 'state III of IV'. The number of states recognised for this plate should be taken from the standard catalogue rather than from the acquisition paperwork; see RQ-02. Until that check is done, this record states what the source said and marks it as a report, not a determination.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." }, { "id": "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "tier": "auction_catalogue", "kind": "catalogue_record", "title": "Auction catalogue entry for the lot as offered, Bonhams New York, 2023", "author": "Bonhams", "date": "2023", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "on_request", "access_note": "The published lot page has not yet been located in the house's online archive. See research question RQ-08.", "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "An auction catalogue is a working attribution by a cataloguer under time pressure, not a scholarly determination. It is recorded here as a source, and its statements are carried as claims at the confidence the source supports — no higher." } ] }, { "id": "CL-DIMENSIONS", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "dimensions", "field": "Dimensions", "value": "Approximately 137 × 104 mm", "confidence": "possible", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Remeasurement under a conservation protocol, recording plate mark and sheet separately, to the millimetre, with the measuring convention stated.", "note": "The working record does not say whether this is the plate mark or the sheet. Because the sheet is described as trimmed, the distinction matters: a trimmed sheet can be smaller than the plate. Both measurements will be recorded separately once taken.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." } ] }, { "id": "CL-CONDITION-SUMMARY", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "condition", "field": "Condition summary", "value": "Trimmed at the left margin; wrinkling and dampstaining at lower left, extending partly into the image; unmounted at purchase", "confidence": "possible", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE" ], "stated_by": "Working record, following the acquisition documentation", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "A condition report by a paper conservator, which would replace this summary field by field and add severity, extent and stability assessments this record cannot make.", "note": "Condition language from a sale catalogue is written to describe a lot, not to document an object. It is preserved verbatim where possible and will be superseded, not overwritten, when a conservator's report exists.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-WORKING-RECORD", "tier": "user_submission", "kind": "document", "title": "Owner's working object record, assembled 2026", "author": "Owner / steward", "date": "2026-08", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "A compilation by the owner from acquisition paperwork and prior reading. It is the weakest tier in the hierarchy deliberately: it is a report of documents rather than the documents themselves. Every field derived from it is marked as such until checked against a primary source." }, { "id": "EV-ACQ-CATALOGUE", "tier": "auction_catalogue", "kind": "catalogue_record", "title": "Auction catalogue entry for the lot as offered, Bonhams New York, 2023", "author": "Bonhams", "date": "2023", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "on_request", "access_note": "The published lot page has not yet been located in the house's online archive. See research question RQ-08.", "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "An auction catalogue is a working attribution by a cataloguer under time pressure, not a scholarly determination. It is recorded here as a source, and its statements are carried as claims at the confidence the source supports — no higher." } ] }, { "id": "CL-MARKS", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "inscriptions_marks", "field": "Collector marks and inscriptions", "value": "None recorded; verso not yet examined", "confidence": "unknown", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR" ], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Verso photography. Collector marks, dealer codes and pencil inscriptions are the most common route into a print's earlier ownership, and they are usually on the back.", "note": "The absence of a record is not a record of absence. Nothing has been examined.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR", "tier": "physical_observation", "kind": "opinion", "title": "No conservator examination has taken place", "author": null, "date": "2026-08-12", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "public", "access_note": null, "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "Recorded as an explicit negative so that the absence is visible in the record rather than inferred from silence. No paper conservator has examined the sheet, and no technical imaging has been carried out." } ] }, { "id": "CL-ACQUISITION", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "acquisition", "field": "Acquisition", "value": "Bonhams, New York, 2023", "confidence": "strongly_supported", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-ACQ-INVOICE" ], "stated_by": "Owner", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "Nothing — the transaction is documented by invoice. The sale name, date and lot number still need to be transcribed into this record.", "note": "This is the best-evidenced fact on the page, because it is the only one backed by a primary document the project actually holds.", "evidence": [ { "id": "EV-ACQ-INVOICE", "tier": "primary_document", "kind": "document", "title": "Bonhams invoice and purchase documentation, New York, 2023", "author": "Bonhams", "date": "2023", "url": null, "excerpt": null, "bibliography_id": null, "access": "on_request", "access_note": "The invoice carries the buyer's name and delivery address. A copy redacted to show only the sale name, sale number, date and lot number can be supplied to a scholar or institution on request.", "rights": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "notes": "This is the strongest document the project currently holds about the sheet. It has not yet been transcribed into the record field by field; doing so is the first item on the editorial queue." } ] }, { "id": "CL-CUSTODY", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "provenance", "field": "Current custody", "value": "Private collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "confidence": "confirmed", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-ACQ-INVOICE" ], "stated_by": "Owner", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": "2026-08-12", "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": null, "note": "Stated at city level by policy. Storage location, address, security arrangements and insurance values are not published and are not held in this database. 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It has not yet been transcribed into the record field by field; doing so is the first item on the editorial queue." } ] }, { "id": "CL-EARLIER-PROVENANCE", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "provenance", "field": "Ownership before 2023", "value": "Unknown", "confidence": "unknown", "evidence_ids": [], "stated_by": null, "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": null, "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": "A consignor's name from the auction house, a collector's mark on the verso, an old mount or backing board, a dealer's stock number, or an appearance in an earlier sale catalogue.", "note": "Roughly 385 years are unaccounted for between the plate being worked and the 2023 sale. The provenance timeline shows this as an explicit gap rather than beginning the story in 2023.", "evidence": [] }, { "id": "CL-RIGHTS-METADATA", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "rights", "field": "Metadata rights", "value": "CC0 1.0 Universal — no rights reserved over the descriptive metadata", "confidence": "confirmed", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-PROJECT-POLICY" ], "stated_by": "Project", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": "2026-08-12", "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": null, "note": "Metadata is released without restriction so that it can be reused, aggregated and corrected by anyone. 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It is primary evidence for claims about licensing and for nothing else." } ] }, { "id": "CL-RIGHTS-IMAGES", "subject": "np-rmb-001", "category": "rights", "field": "Image rights", "value": "No images of this impression are published", "confidence": "confirmed", "evidence_ids": [ "EV-NO-CONSERVATOR", "EV-PROJECT-POLICY" ], "stated_by": "Project", "reviewed_by": null, "added": "2026-08-12", "last_verified": "2026-08-12", "supersedes": [], "status": "active", "what_would_change_it": null, "note": "The underlying work is in the public domain. Photographs of it do not exist yet. 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