REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN | Self-Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face Dark: Bust (B., Holl. 17; New Holl. 120; H. 108)

Etching, 1633, a very good impression of New Hollstein's second state (of five), though showing touches of wear in the densely hatched areas of the cap and in the shadows, framed

With a thread margin at lower sheet edge (trimmed slightly unevenly), trimmed just within the platemark elsewhere, in good condition, the borderline reinforced in places with touches of pen and ink, the upper left corner of the sheet thinned (possibly repaired), the verso with remains of previous hinging at extreme sheet edges, two minute stains with associated white fibres at upper left sheet edge and in the unprinted area behind the subject's scarf, framed.
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