Old Master Drawing Dutch School, Late 18th Century Trompe l'Oeil

Dutch School, late 18th century

A trompe l'oeil ‘bedriegertje’ with printed papers around Rembrandt’s etching of Jan Asselijn 

Pencil, pen and black ink, brown wash, partly incised, watermark French lily, 429 x 361 mm 

A few small folds, otherwise in good condition

In the centre of the composition is an impression of the etching by Rembrandt (1606–1669) of the Italianate painter Jan Asselijn, called Crabbetje (c.1610–1652), made around 1647. Placed over it is an exact drawn copy of the title page of ”Stichtelycke rymen, om te lesen ofte singhen” by Dirk Rafaelsz Camphuysen (1586–1627), printed in Amsterdam in 1647, and another exact drawn copy of “Eenes Christens Reize na de Eeuwigheid”, a Dutch translation of A Pilgrim’s Progress by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan (1628–1688), originally published in London 1678, while the depicted Dutch edition was printed in Amsterdam, the ‘achtiende druck’, or eighteenth edition.

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