Ship of Fortune

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Date1633

MediumEtching; second and final state

DimensionsImage Size: 4 3/8 × 6 9/16 in. (11.1 × 16.7 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineDonated by Captain Wilbur E. Dow, Jr., Lake George Steamship Company

Object number2021.8

On View

On view

DescriptionAn etching in black printing ink on hanadmade paper of medium weight.Exhibition History“Recent Acquisitions,” Whitney-Renz Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, May 6-June 4, 2023.

“Prosperity and Exclusion,” The Hyde Collection, Hoopes and Whitney-Renz Galleries, May 31 – Sept. 21, 2025ProvenancePrincely Collection of Lichtenstein [1]; purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London; purchased by Wilbur Egerton Dow Jr. [ca. 1906-1991], Lake George, New York, ca. late 1940s [2]; inherited by William P. Dow [1936-2022], Lake George, New York; given to The Hyde Collection, December 9, 2021.

[1] Hyde curator Jonathan Canning contacted the curator of the Princely Collection of Lichtenstein and learned that the Princely Collection sold 573 Dutch and Flemish engravings to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd. in 1949
[2] According to a letter from William P. Dow to Jonathan Canning, dated January 16, 2018, Mr. Dow’s father, Wilbur Dow, brought the work “over from England, later 1940’s”