Woman reading, by Rembrandt

An image of Woman reading. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 123 mm, width, plate, 100 mm; height, sheet, 125 mm, width, sheet, 103 mm, 1634. Production Note: II/III. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B345 II/III. Biörklund/Barnard; BB34-D II/III.

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Woman reading. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 123 mm, width, plate, 100 mm; height, sheet, 125 mm, width, sheet, 103 mm, 1634. Production Note: II/III. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B345 II/III. Biörklund/Barnard; BB34-D II/III.

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Accession Number: 23.K.5-428
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 852 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 0.96MB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:02:13 11:39:00

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17th Century Dutch etching female Fitz_PDP hair headscarf portraits print reader reading reading a book Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn scarf seated sitting woman

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