Saint Jerome reading in an Italian Landscape

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669) Saint Jerome reading in an Italian Landscape etching and drypoint, circa 1653, on firm, warm-tinted oatmeal paper, a very fine, atmospheric impression of the second, final state, printed with much burr on the lion's mane, in the foliage, on the bridge, underneath the farmhouse and elsewhere, with considerable tone and pronounced horizontal wiping marks, some light sulphur tinting in the sky at right, trimmed to or on the platemark, a small, unobtrusive repair at the upper left sheet edge, a few small rust spots, generally in very good condition Plate & Sheet 259 x 211 mm.