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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate.
Etching and engraving, 1633. 528x407 mm; 20 3/4x16 1/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 5); Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's fourth state (of 5), with the address of Justus Danckers and before the Basan editions. Bunch of grapes watermark (Ash/Fletcher 21 A a; the identical watermark is on the fourth state impression of this subject in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). A very good, dark and well-inked impression of this large etching, very scarce in pre-Basan impressions. Bartsch 81; Biörklund 33-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 81.
