Lot Essay
The present impression prints more richly and tonal, with fine black accents in the roof and elsewhere, and is generally superior to the Cracherode and Slade impressions in the British Museum.
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Cottage and Farm Buildings with a Man sketching
Details
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Cottage and Farm Buildings with a Man sketching
etching, 1645, on laid paper, watermark Arms of Ravensburg with Initials BM (Hinterding B.a.), a brilliant, very atmospheric impression of New Hollstein's only state, printing with a subtle, varied plate tone and many light wiping marks in the sky, with small margins, in very good condition
Plate 129 x 209 mm., Sheet circa 137 x 219 mm.
Cottage and Farm Buildings with a Man sketching
etching, 1645, on laid paper, watermark Arms of Ravensburg with Initials BM (Hinterding B.a.), a brilliant, very atmospheric impression of New Hollstein's only state, printing with a subtle, varied plate tone and many light wiping marks in the sky, with small margins, in very good condition
Plate 129 x 209 mm., Sheet circa 137 x 219 mm.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 219; Hind 213; New Hollstein 201 (only state)
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