The Boat house, Grotto with a brook, by Rembrandt

An image of The Boat house. Grotto with a brook. Het Spelonkje. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, chainlines horizontal (24.5 mm), height, plate, 127 mm, width, plate, 134 mm; height, sheet, 128 mm, width, sheet, 135 mm, 1645. Production Note: I/III. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B231 I/III. Biörklund/Barnard; BB45-C I/III. Lugt; 2475.

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The Boat house. Grotto with a brook. Het Spelonkje. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, black carbon ink on laid paper, chainlines horizontal (24.5 mm), height, plate, 127 mm, width, plate, 134 mm; height, sheet, 128 mm, width, sheet, 135 mm, 1645. Production Note: I/III. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B231 I/III. Biörklund/Barnard; BB45-C I/III. Lugt; 2475.

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Accession Number: AD.12.39-398
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 981 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 262.79kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:29 11:58:20

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17th Century boat house boat-houses boats brook drypoint Dutch etching exterior Fitz_PDP grotto Holland landscape Netherlands print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

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