- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G3264
- People
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
- Title
- The Three Trees
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1643
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/279344
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3600, University Research Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Etching, engraving, and drypoint on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching, engraving and drypoint
- Dimensions
- image: 20.5 × 27.7 cm (8 1/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
mounting sheet: 27.4 × 35 cm (10 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink stamp: Dr. / WA [linked] / Pr. [within a circular border; Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791)]
- inscription: on secondary sheet, lower margin, graphite: Bartsch.212 (Cl 209) Ack.s. 698
- inscription: verso, secondary sheet, upper center, graphite: Nr. 2380.
- inscription: verso, secondary sheet, graphite: 89-h [?]
- inscription: verso, graphite: E. H. G. [Edward Hale Greenleaf; late 19th-c. inventory of the Gray Collection]
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 3264
- Provenance
- W. Ackermann.
W. Ackerman.
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- only state
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 214, Bartsch 212, Hind 205, Rovinski 212
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G3264
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 1.4 on p. 28 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]
Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
- Exhibition History
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Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006
Rembrandt Prints & Drawings, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 11/05/2008 - 12/14/2008
32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2016 - 03/09/2017
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
- Related Works
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