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The British Museum
- Holder
- The British Museum
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Accession
- 1910,0212.376
- Title as catalogued
- print (untitled record; described as 'Self-portrait of Rembrandt, in a velvet cap with plume, half-length facing front, with left hand inside tunic; second state with jaw delineated. 1638')
- Date as catalogued
- 1638
- Medium as catalogued
- etching
- State
- II · New Hollstein
- State, verbatim
- second state with jaw delineated (New Hollstein 170.II)
- Catalogue references
- New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 170.II; Hind 1923 no. 156; White & Boon 1969 no. 20
- Plate
- —
- Sheet
- —
- Watermark
- Basilisk (Hinterding catalogue, variant A'.a., datable c.1641-47 [detail of wing only])
- Collector marks
- —
- Provenance
- Bequeathed by: George Salting; Acquisition date 1910
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by George Salting
- Condition
- —
- Rights
- Not stated
- Checked
- 2026-08-12 — Project — record read directly from the holding institution's own published record
Transcription notes
Dimensions given by the BM without a plate/sheet label: 'Height: 136 millimetres / Width: 105 millimetres'. Curator's comments state verbatim: 'For other impressions see F,4.25-26. For a later state see 1941,0327.11.3. For copies see also 1861,0518.200; 1902,0514.736 and 1938,0917.1.' Exhibited London, National Gallery, 'Rembrandt by Himself', 1999 (cat. no. 49). Page retrieved via a real browser session; direct HTTP fetch is blocked by a Cloudflare interstitial.
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