Cottage and Boundary Post on the Spaarndammerdijk ('The Landscape with the Obelisk')

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669) Cottage and Boundary Post on the Spaarndammerdijk ('The Landscape with the Obelisk') etching and drypoint, circa 1650, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, atmospheric impression of the second, final state, printing with considerable burr in the grasses at lower right, and with many wiping marks and pronounced sulphur tinting in the sky, trimmed to the platemark on three sides, with square corners above, the lower edge of the subject skilfully made up Sheet 84 x 263 mm.