The Windmill

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn The Windmill etching with touches of drypoint, 1641, on thin laid paper, without watermark, a very fine impression of New Hollstein's only state, the distant landscape printing very clearly, the sulphur tinting and craquelure in the sky very pronounced, and without any wear in the dense shadows at lower left, with thread margins, a small ink stain verso showing through faintly at the left centre sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition Plate 145 x 209 mm., Sheet 146 x 211 mm.