Old Woman seated in a Cottage with a String of Onions on the Wall

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669) Old Woman seated in a Cottage with a String of Onions on the Wall etching circa 1629 on laid paper, without watermark a fine, strong impression of this exceedingly rare, early print one of only two known impressions of the first state (of three) before the monogram and date were added by another hand printing with a rich and varied plate tone and much inky relief trimmed on or just inside the platemark at the sides, fractionally inside the subject above and below a printer's crease at lower left generally in good condition Sheet 115 x 84 mm.