REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669) AND CAPTAIN WILLIAM BAILLIE (1723-1810)

Captain William Baillie famously acquired the plate of Rembrandt's celebrated etching of Christ healing the Sick, generally known as 'The Hundred Guilder Print' around 1775. After extensively and skilfully reworking the heavily worn plate, Baillie printed and published a small edition of impressions on different papers and even on silk, before cutting the plate into different sections. He continued to take impressions of four of these fragments, three of which are included in the present album (see New Hollstein 239 III B, C and D).
The album also comprises a wide variety of prints of different formats and techniques by Captain Baillie, mostly after drawings, paintings and prints by other artists, including Anguissola, Dou, Dyck, Hals, Hone, Le Nain, Mieris, Ostade, Parmigianino, Poussin, Rembrandt, Reni, Rosa, Rubens, Ruisdael, Teniers, Terburgh, Zuccari and others, many after works in the collection of the Earl of Bute.