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Landscape with Old Tree

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Artist William Baillie, Artist
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Landscape with Old Tree

1760

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Artist) Dutch, 1606-1669 William Baillie (Artist) English, 1723-1810

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper

Plate: 7 × 12 inches (17.8 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S49

Public Domain

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Inscribed in plate, lower center: Tacet et loquitur. Dated, lower right: 1760 Center bottom margin: Dal Disegno originale di Rembrandt nel Museo del Signore Hone, a lui questa Intagliatura in Ricognocenza delle Instruzioni di Lui ricevutie | Dedicata per il suo Amico sincero Lower right corner of plate: WBaillie Capitano nel Regimo 51 di S. M. B.

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October 1886, C. A. Henriques sale.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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William Baillie; after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Landscape with Old Tree, 1760, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S49.

Landscape with Old Tree
Landscape with Old Tree