Old man with a flowing beard, after Rembrandt

An image of Old man with a flowing beard: Bust. Unknown printmaker. After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink, laid paper, height, plate, 68 mm, width, plate, 63 mm; height, sheet, 82 mm, width, sheet, 79 mm, after 1631. Production Note: Reverse copy. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B315 Copy 3; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB31-F Copy 3; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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Old man with a flowing beard: Bust. Unknown printmaker. After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink, laid paper, height, plate, 68 mm, width, plate, 63 mm; height, sheet, 82 mm, width, sheet, 79 mm, after 1631. Production Note: Reverse copy. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B315 Copy 3; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB31-F Copy 3; 1955. Lugt; 2475.

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Accession Number: AD.12.39-332
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: 977 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.01MB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2018:02:12 10:16:46

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17th Century aged bald balding bearded beards busts Dutch elderly etching Fitz_PDP heads looking looking down male man old old age old man portraits print Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

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