Old man seen from behind, profile to right, by Rembrandt

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Old man seen from behind, profile to right: Half-figure. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, black carbon ink on laid paper, height, plate, 72 mm, width, plate, 43 mm; height, sheet, 86 mm, width, sheet, 55 mm, circa 1630-1631. Production Note: IV/IV. Notes: Originally part of a plate of studies of men's heads (B.366), the large plate was divided into five separate plates. Alternative Number(s): Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish); B143 IV/IV; 1969. Biörklund/Barnard; BB31-3-C V/V; 1955.

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Accession Number: AD.12.40-105
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 656 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 651.09kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:16 09:38:33

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17th Century aged Dutch elderly etching Fitz_PDP hats male man old old age old man peasants poor poverty print profile Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

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