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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol, Writing Master: larger plate.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1658. 343x290 mm; 13 1/2x11 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 6), before the reduction of the plate; Usticke's sixth state (of 11); White and Boon's fifth state (of 6). Auvergne watermark (Ash/Fletcher 39 F b, which they date to around 1742). A superb, richly-inked impression, with drypoint in the curtain folds upper left and right.
Extremely scarce before the reduction of the plate and the subsequent Basan printings. Bartsch 283; Biörklund 58-F; Hollstein (White and Boon) 283.
