Landscape with a cottage and a hay barn, by Rembrandt

An image of Landscape with a cottage and a hay barn. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, chainlines vertical (24 mm), height, plate, 130 mm, width, plate, 321 mm; height, sheet, 149 mm, width, sheet, 337 mm, 1641. Production Note: Only state. Printed on mould side of paper. Notes: Printed on the same type of paper as 23.K.5-314, 'Landscape with a cottage and a large tree', also of 1641. The two prints also share similar size margins and central folds, perhaps from where they were mounted before entering Viscount Fitzwilliam's collection; indeed, the pair may have stayed together since they were printed. Some impressions of these two prints share a split watermark, showing that they were printed simultaneously on the same sheet. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B225 Only state. Biörklund/Barnard; BB41-A. Lugt; 932. Ash & Fletcher (Rembrandt watermarks); 36.D.b.

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Landscape with a cottage and a hay barn. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, chainlines vertical (24 mm), height, plate, 130 mm, width, plate, 321 mm; height, sheet, 149 mm, width, sheet, 337 mm, 1641. Production Note: Only state. Printed on mould side of paper. Notes: Printed on the same type of paper as 23.K.5-314, 'Landscape with a cottage and a large tree', also of 1641. The two prints also share similar size margins and central folds, perhaps from where they were mounted before entering Viscount Fitzwilliam's collection; indeed, the pair may have stayed together since they were printed. Some impressions of these two prints share a split watermark, showing that they were printed simultaneously on the same sheet. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B225 Only state. Biörklund/Barnard; BB41-A. Lugt; 932. Ash & Fletcher (Rembrandt watermarks); 36.D.b.

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Accession Number: 23.K.5-310
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 460 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 407.31kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:29 12:06:56

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17th Century building buildings cottage cottages drypoint Dutch etching exterior farm houses farmhouses farming farmland farms Fitz_PDP hay barns Holland homes houses landscape Netherlands print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn residence rural rustic thatched thatched cottage thatched roof

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