REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate.
Etching and engraving, 1633. 523x405 mm; 20 5/8x16 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5); Usticke's fourth state (of 5), with the burnished remnants of the address of Danckers lower margin; White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). A good, dark impression of this large etching, with contrasts.
Issued by the Amsterdam publisher Julius Danckers around 1685, after he had acquired the plate from Hendrick van Uylenburgh, the uncle of Saskia van Uylenburgh, Rembrandt's wife. Bartsch 81; Biörklund 33-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 81.
