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Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill
1639
- Medium
- etching, touched with black chalk
- Measurements
- 20.5 × 16.4 cm (plate) 20.8 × 16.6 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 21; Hind 168 i/iii; White & Boon 21 i/ii; NHD 171 i/ii
- Edition
- 1st of 2 states
- Inscription
- printed in ink u.l.: Rembrandt f / 1639
- Accession Number
- p.186.5-1
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1891
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
Watermarks
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- Watermark Form
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Strasbourg lily
- The Strasbourg lily watermark shows a shield with a fleur-de-lis surmounted by a crown. There are many variants of the Strasbourg lily motif used by papermakers in Strasbourg, and some variants have also been connected to South-West France from the mid-17th century onward.
- Watermark and variant description
- Strasbourg lily - variant A.HP.a.b. Fleur-de-lis on a crowded shield. The central petal rounded. The crown has three bands, the central one being the broadest. Double horns flank the crown, on which there is a complex fleur-de-lis and leaves. Beside the horns are three-petalled flowers. The shield has side scrolls. Initials HP below.
- Closely related watermark references
- Heawood 1780 (1680, London); Churchill 401 (1625); Wibiral 7b (1660).
- Completeness
- partial
- Chain Line Interval
- 23-24 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 10-11/cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- 138
- Wire Side
- verso
- Radiograph taken from
- verso
