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The Shell, 1650. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Plate: 9.7 × 13.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Shell
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- 1650
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 9.7 × 13.2 cm (3 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 9.9 × 13.4 cm (3 15/16 × 5 5/16 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.