etching with touches of drypoint, on laid paper; with watermark Strasbourg Bend (Hinterding A-a-a); state I (of IV) (trimmed to or just inside the platemark)Bartsch, Hollstein 69; Hind 126; New Hollstein 139; Daulby 69 Unframed: 14 x 17.1 cm. (5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) (sheet) Provenance:Reginald Pole Carew (1753-1835), Antony House, Cornwall;His sale; Benjamin Wheatley, London,13 May 1835, lot 73;Private Collection, London.Notes:Reginald Pole Carew (1753-1835) was a British politician. Notably, he was a friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and built a substantial collection of Rembrandt's prints, many of which were sold after his death at Benjamin Wheatley's auction on 13 May 1835, where 18 were purchased by the British Museum. The present etching is listed as being the first state of four in Wheatley's 1835 catalogue where it was sold for £3.10 shillings.