Author: MIDDLETON, CHARLES HENRY
Title: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Rembrandt Van Rhyn
Description: Londen, John Murray. 1878, First Edition. Half Leather. 341pp and 12 plates. The rarest and perhaps the most important catalogue raisonné of Rembrandt's etchings. Middleton describes 329 works he considers authentic and 30 which he rejects, all in great detail, with particular attention to states. He also provides detailed, complex, and scholarly arguments justifying his acceptance or rejection of each questionable piece: he was the first to do so, and thus opened a new era in the study of these prints. lx, 341 pp. 12 plates with illustrations of details distiguishing states and copies, [2] pp. publisher's ads; Contemporary half leather . loose binding, gilt stamped title.. Fair.

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