Bearded old man with a high forehead, after Rembrandt

An image of Bearded old man with a high forehead. Unknown printmaker. Reworked after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, surface tone, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 74 mm, width, plate, 65 mm; height, sheet, 79 mm, width, sheet, 69 mm, circa 1630. The print may have been executed before 1630. Production Note: II/II. Alternative Number(s):Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B314 II/II. Biörklund/Barnard; BB31-19 II/II.

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Bearded old man with a high forehead. Unknown printmaker. Reworked after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, surface tone, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 74 mm, width, plate, 65 mm; height, sheet, 79 mm, width, sheet, 69 mm, circa 1630. The print may have been executed before 1630. Production Note: II/II. Alternative Number(s):Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B314 II/II. Biörklund/Barnard; BB31-19 II/II.

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Accession Number: 23.K.5-407
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 892 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 0.99MB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2018:02:12 10:19:01

Key words

17th Century aged bearded beards caps Dutch elderly etching Fitz_PDP forehead fur collar hats heads high forehead looking looking down male man old old age old man portraits print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn surface tone

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