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A Collection of Etchings; Mostly Original, by the Most Eminent Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools.
Bound volume with approximately 200 etchings by or after Rembrandt van Rijn; Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain; Cornelis Bega; Wezel Hollar, Giovanni B. Castiglione, Stefano della Bella; and others, 1826. 365x255 mm; 14 1/2x10 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins.
Published by J. Kay, London. Full green, gold-stamped Morocco binding, covers worn.
This work was originally issued in London in 1816 as A Collection of 200 Original Etchings utilizing both the original etching plates of the noted artists or etchings copied from their work, under the direction of the publisher J. M. Creary. Another edition, published by W. Lewis, in London, preceded the Kay edition. In each of these editions, there are 6 etchings pulled from Rembrandt's original plates (Bartsch 38, 75, 79, 262, 264 and 268) as well as numerous additional etchings printed from the original plates of Claude, Bega, Castiglione and Hollar, in addition to the many copies of their work also included in each volume.
