Details
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Bathers (B., Holl.195: H.250; BB.51-B)
etching, 1651, first state (of two), a fine, early impression, although slightly underinked at the left, printed with delicate vertical wiping scratches and some tone at the plate edges, with the fragment of a watermark, with narrow to thread margins, on three sides, cut approximately 3mm. at the left, the tip of the left sheetcorners made up, old glue-staining with associated thin spots at the reverse sheet edges, a few soft creases
S.110 x 134mm.
The Bathers (B., Holl.195: H.250; BB.51-B)
etching, 1651, first state (of two), a fine, early impression, although slightly underinked at the left, printed with delicate vertical wiping scratches and some tone at the plate edges, with the fragment of a watermark, with narrow to thread margins, on three sides, cut approximately 3mm. at the left, the tip of the left sheetcorners made up, old glue-staining with associated thin spots at the reverse sheet edges, a few soft creases
S.110 x 134mm.
Provenance
W.E. Drugulin (L.2612); Sotheby's London, 11 June 1866 et seq., lot 418, "first state, before the aqua fortis stain in the sky, & C., rare"