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The Windmill, 1641. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 14.4 × 20.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Windmill
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- 1641
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 14.4 × 20.8 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 14.6 × 21.1 cm (5 3/4 × 8 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.