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Four Illustrations to Menasseh Ben Israel's 'Piedra Gloriosa' C. David and Goliath

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Four Illustrations to Menasseh Ben Israel's 'Piedra Gloriosa' C. David and Goliath

1655
Etching and engraving with drypoint, printed on Japanese paper.
106 x 74 mm
RvR 49
NHD number
NHD 288c, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
From the undivided plate.
1 Sam. 17:49.
See also RvR 44.
The contour of the hill near the top right broken. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated below all four illustrations lower left, "Rembrandt f 1655".
Provenance

John Barnard (d.1784), London; Carl Schlösser (1827-1884), Elberfeld; Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London and Arlesford; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Barnard, John, d. 1784, former owner.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Schlösser, Carl, 1827-1884, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School