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The Circumcision: Small Plate

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Circumcision: Small Plate

ca. 1630
Etching, with touches of drypoint on paper.
Plate Mark: 88 x 64 mm
RvR 75
NHD number
NHD 55
Notes
Watermark: None.
Luke 2:21.
More contrast and more heavily inked than RvR 74.
One of two impressions in the Library (see RvR 74).
Only one state.
Upper margin trimmed and partially redrawn.
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; John Heywood Hawkins (1803-1877), London and Bignor Park; Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London and Dalkeith; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner.
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School