Landscape with a Hay Barn and a Flock of Sheep

Rembrandt1652

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Title: Landscape with a Hay Barn and a Flock of Sheep
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date Created: 1652
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Rembrandt f 1652” (with “d” reversed as “Rembranbt”)
Print State: Second of two states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1938
Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint on laid paper. Watermark: Initials “LR” as “LR’ a.” in Ash and Fletcher Concordance (p. 143)
Keywords: animals, arched-top images, barns, landscapes (representations), sheep
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 83 mm x 174 mm (3.27 in. x 6.85 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 224; H. 241; White and Boon as second of two states. For student research on the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings’ watermarks vis-à-vis Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file “Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.”
Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Accession Number: 1938.D1.55

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