_THE_ ETCHINGS OF REMBRANDT _BY_ P. G. HAMERTON _WITH FIFTY FACSIMILES IN PHOTOGRAVURE_ _and_ _AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF REMBRANDT’S ETCHINGS_ _by_ CAMPBELL DODGSON _Of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum._ “I have been studying,” said Mr. Hamerton in 1894, “the works of Rembrandt’s immediate predecessors and contemporaries in etching, with a view to understand his relative position more accurately. The result has only been to deepen my sense of the master’s incomparable greatness, of his sterling originality, and especially of that wonderful quality in him by which he does not belong to the seventeenth century, but quite as much to the closing years of the nineteenth. In like manner, when it comes, he will be at home in the twentieth century, and in many another after it.” Much has been done, since those words were written, to spread the great etcher’s fame through the many reproductions of his plates that have been published. The art of reproduction, however, is a very modern one, and has only recently attained perfection. The plates here offered have been pronounced by experts to be superior to any hitherto produced. The selection has been made with the view of showing Rembrandt’s work in its rich variety, and it includes several of his most important and largest subjects. Mr. Hamerton was specially qualified to write on the subject from his intimate practical knowledge of the technicalities of etching. His valuable essay was highly appreciated at the time of its appearance; and Mr. Campbell Dodgson has now added to it a complete annotated catalogue of all Rembrandt’s etchings, embodying the latest conclusions of the best critics. The edition is limited to 250 copies, of which only 225 are for sale. Each copy will be numbered. LIST OF THE FIFTY PLATES