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Faust,

Alternative title(s): Dr. Faustus

Etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper

Second of three states

Print impression quality: Very good

Dimensions (Plate): 210 x 160 mm (8.3 x 6.3 in.)

Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (not listed in Ash and Fletcher Concordance for this print)

Accession number: 1947.D1.212

Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947

Bibliography: Bartsch 270; H. 260; White and Boon second of three states. For student research on the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings’ watermarks vis-à-vis Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.

Work Type: print

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• literature (writings)
• occult sciences
• religious art
• genre
• Faust (character)

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