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Self-portrait (?) with plumed cap and lowered sabre

Self-portrait (?) with plumed cap and lowered sabre
1634

Medium
etching and engraving

Measurements
13.0 × 10.7 cm (plate) (oval) 13.3 × 10.9 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1958

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 23; Hind 110 iii/iii; White & Boon 23 iii/iii; NHD 135 iii/iii

Edition
3rd of 3 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Rembrandt / f. 1634

Accession Number
3816-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Watermarks

Watermark Form
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.a.b. Fleur-de-lis on a crowned 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 BA below.

Closely related watermark references
Heawood 1780 (1680, London); Churchill 401 (1625); Wibiral 7b (1660).

Completeness
partial

Chain Line Interval
22-25 mm

Laid Line Frequency
12/cm

Placement and spacing of wires
? X 9 [9|22|19] x 5

Wire Side
recto

Radiograph taken from
verso