The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers, by Rembrandt

An image of The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, engraving, surface tone, black carbon ink on Oriental paper, height, plate, 209 mm, width, plate, 283 mm; height, sheet, 217 mm, width, sheet, 294 mm, circa 1653. Production Note: IV?/VII - may be an intermediate state between III and IV. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B56 IV?/VII; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB53-2 IV/VII; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, engraving, surface tone, black carbon ink on Oriental paper, height, plate, 209 mm, width, plate, 283 mm; height, sheet, 217 mm, width, sheet, 294 mm, circa 1653. Production Note: IV?/VII - may be an intermediate state between III and IV. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B56 IV?/VII; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB53-2 IV/VII; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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Accession Number: AD.12.40-100
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 761 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 167.23kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2017:12:18 11:38:49

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