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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Adoration of the Shepherds: with the Lamp.
Etching, circa 1654. 103x129 mm; 4 1/8x5 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2), with the curved blank space in the cross-hatching upper right; Usticke's first state (i) (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Ex-collection d'Arenberg (Lugt 567, verso). A superb, richly-inked, early impression with strong contrasts and no sign of wear, with burr in the lower left corner and inky plate edges, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bartsch 45; Biörklund 54-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 45.
