The Virgin and Child with the Cat and the Snake

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn The Virgin and Child with the Cat and the Snake etching, 1654, on laid paper, countermark PEH (Hinterding A.a. 2º), a very good impression of the first state (of three), printing with many light vertical wiping lines, with thread margins, trimmed on the platemark in places, with a framing line in brown ink along the sheet edges, a few small ink spots at lower left, framed Plate 105 x 143 mm., Sheet 105 x 145 mm.