Lot 56
  • 56

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Clump of Trees with a vista (B., Holl. 222; New Holl. 272; H. 263)
  • drypoint
  • plate: 125 by 212mm 5 by 8 3/8 in
  • sheet: 135 by 223mm 5 3/8 by 8 3/4 in
Drypoint, 1652, a fine impression of this extremely rare print, the second (final) state, New Hollstein's second (final) state, with much burr on the tree at left and elsewhere, printing with tone and vertical polishing scratches in the sky, on paper with a WK countermark 

Provenance

Ex coll. Adalbert von Lanna (L. 2773); Adam Gottlieb Thiermann (L. 2434); a duplicate from Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (L. 2482 and L. 1606)  

Condition

With circa 5mm margins all around, in good condition, apart from three fox marks in the sky, unframed.
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