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The Circumcision: Small Plate, c. 1630. Etching with drypoint on ivory laid paper.
Etching with drypoint on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 9 × 6.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Circumcision: Small Plate
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 9 × 6.3 cm (3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 10.7 × 8.1 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1606–1669
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.