Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher
1646
Etching, engraving and drypoint on paper.
278 x 188 mm
RvR 389
NHD 235, II
Provenance: 
Henry Brodhurst (ca. 1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Signed and dated upper center, "Rembrandt 1646".

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Watermark: None.
One of three impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 388 & RvR 390).
Upper margin is cleaned and the slip of the graver burnished out.
Wide margins: 27 mm at the left, 23-24 mm at the right, 26 mm at the top, and 37 mm at the bottom.

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