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Cottage and Boundary Post on the Spaarndammerdijk

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Cottage and Boundary Post on the Spaarndammerdijk

ca. 1650
Etching and drypoint on paper.
83 x 160 mm (arched at top)
RvR 321
NHD number
NHD 249, II
Notes
Cottage and paling shaded. More shading added to the base of the column, and to the water and plants in the right hand foreground. Some of the burr of the drypoint has been removed. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Horn in shield over letters "LR", fragment.
Provenance

Henry Brodhurst (ca. 1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Brodhurst, Henry, active 1849-1872, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School