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Canal with an Angler and Two Swans,

Etching and drypoint on laid paper

Second of two states

Print impression quality: Good; some visible drypoint burr

Dimensions (Plate): 82 x 108 mm (3.2 x 4.3 in.)

Signed in plate, lower left: “Rembrandt f 1650”

Watermark: No watermark

Accession number: 1941.D1.27

Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1941

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Johann Carl Dietrich Hebich, 1818–1891 (Lugt 1250); P. von Baldinger-Seidenberg, 1912 (Lugt 212); H. Weber, 1817–1854 (Lugt 1383)

Bibliography: Bartsch 235; H. 238; White and Boon second of two states; Gersaint described this and Bartsch 236 as being part of the same plate, but White and Boon dispute this, arguing that the perspective is different and that the two subjects do not join.

Work Type: print

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• sports
• landscapes (representations)
• fishing
• animals
• Netherlands
• water
• canals

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