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25 January - 8 April 2001 This major loan exhibition, the most ambitious display of Rembrandt's prints ever mounted, will present for the first time the highlights of both collections to provide a panorama of Rembrandt's achievements as a printmaker, from their beginnings in the second half of the 1620s until his death forty years later. Organised jointly with the Rijksmuseum and curated by leading authorities in current Rembrandt scholarship, the exhibition will show almost 200 impressions of these masterpieces of western art. The exhibition will also be the first to present the results of important new areas of research that have opened up in recent years, allowing us not only to follow the progress of Rembrandt's work on each etching, but also to determine when he revised the images. Many of his etchings can now be dated more exactly, and individual states of his prints are now precisely datable for the first time. The role played by Rembrandt's preparatory drawings and related oil-sketches, several of which are included from collections in Europe and America, is also now better understood. fig.: Rembrandt van Rijn ( 1606 - 1669 ). Self portrait, etching at a window ( 1648 ). Etching, drypoint and burin, 160 x 130mm. © The British Museum.
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Rembrandt