Four Illustrations to Menasseh Ben Israel's 'Piedra Gloriosa' D. Daniel's Vision of Four Beasts
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Four Illustrations to Menasseh Ben Israel's 'Piedra Gloriosa' D. Daniel's Vision of Four Beasts
1655
Etching and engraving with drypoint on paper.
97 x 76 mm
RvR 51
NHD 288d, II
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.
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Signed and dated below all four illustrations lower left, "Rembrandt f 1655".
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Watermark: None.
From the undivided plate.
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 52), this one contrasty early impression.
See also RvR 44.
The two lines continued to the left border. (White and Boon)
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