Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1665. 173x106 mm; 6⅞x4¼ inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6); Usticke's seventh state (of 7); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5); New Hollstein's sixth state (of 7). Bartsch 264; Biörklund 65-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 264; New Hollstein 314.
Rembrandt's (1606-1669) last documented etching, commissioned on December 22, 1664 as a frontispiece for an edition of Hippocrates edited by the then recently-deceased van der Linden (1609-1664), and given two weeks by the Leiden publishers Daniel and Abraham van Gaasbeeck to complete the portrait.
