Swann Galleries - Old Master Prints - Sale 2429: Part I, November 3, 2016

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157 ● REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap .
Etching and drypoint, 1640. 151x137 mm; 6x51/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund’s first
state (of 3); Usticke’s first state (of 3);White and Boon’s first state (of 3). Partial Strasburg
Lily watermark (Hinterding ., which he cites for early impressions of this subject).
A superb, richly-inked, early impression with burr on the thumb of the right hand, on
the mouth and nose and on the horizontal lines at the lower edge of the plate, consistent
with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bartsch 265; Biörklund 40-A; Hollstein (White
and Boon) 265. [20,000/30,000]