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Title: Rembrandt and His Etchings

Author: Louis Arthur Holman

Release Date: January 8, 2010 [Ebook #30895]

Language: English

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[No. 168. Rembrandt Leaning on a Stone Sill]

_No. 168. Rembrandt Leaning on a Stone Sill_

Rembrandt and His Etchings

A Compact Record of the Artist's Life, his Work and his Time. With the
Complete Chronological List of his Etchings Compiled by A. M. Hind, of the
British Museum

Louis A. Holman

Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., Boston
1921

CONTENTS

REMBRANDT AND HIS ETCHINGS
COMPLETE CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE ETCHINGS OF REMBRANDT
LIST OF THE REJECTED ETCHINGS

ILLUSTRATIONS

_No. 168. Rembrandt Leaning on a Stone Sill_
_No. 116. Two Tramps._
_No. 1. Rembrandt's Mother._
_No. 210. Omval._
_No. 290. Jan Lutma, Goldsmith and Sculptor._
_No. 183. Jacob and Laban (?)._
_No. 228. Jan Six._
_Tobias and the Angel. By Hercules Seghers_
_(No. 266). The Flight into Egypt._
_No. 129. Old Woman Sleeping._

REMBRANDT AND HIS ETCHINGS

[No. 116. Two Tramps.]

_No. 116. Two Tramps._

"A fair & bewtiful citie, and of sweete situation" and famous for "ye
universitie wherwith it is adorned;" such was Leyden as the fresh eyes of
the youthful William Bradford saw it when the little company of English
exiles, later revered as the Pilgrim Fathers, sought asylum in Holland.
The fame of Leyden was to be further perpetuated, although Bradford knew
it not, by one who had but just been born there when the English pilgrims
came to the friendly university town; one who has added to the fame of his
native place chiefly because he did not attend that university, which
seemed so attractive to young Bradford. The father of this boy determined
that he should have a collegiate education that he might sometime hold a
town office, and fondly hoped that he was preparing him for it (in,
perhaps, th