Rembrandt, the Printmaker

Rembrandt was the most original printmaker of all time and was also famously experimental, often reworking and scratching at his copper plates to improve and extend their expessie power, with startlingly modern results. Exciting new areas of research have opened up in recent years, allowing us fo follow the progress of Rembrandt's work on each plate and revealing how and why he revised the images at various times during his life. These new insights are presented in this lavishly illustrated volume.