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Gersaint and Adam von Bartsch, <em>Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l’oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs</em> (Vienne: A Blumauer, 1797)., no. 45","date":1752,"id":6382,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/323251"},{"boilertext":"Arthur Mayger Hind, <em>Rembrandt's etchings: an essay and a catalogue, with some notes on the drawings</em> (New York: Scribner, 1912).","citation":"Arthur Mayger Hind, <em>Rembrandt's etchings: an essay and a catalogue, with some notes on the drawings</em> (New York: Scribner, 1912)., no. 273","date":0,"id":6452,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/680842597"},{"boilertext":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Erik&nbsp;Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Ger Luijten, ed., \"Rembrandt,\" <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>New Hollstein Dutch &amp; Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 </SPAN></EM>(Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound &amp; Vision Publishers ; Amsterdam: In co-operation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 2013).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>","citation":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1\"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>Erik&nbsp;Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Ger Luijten, ed., \"Rembrandt,\" <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>New Hollstein Dutch &amp; Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 </SPAN></EM>(Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound &amp; Vision Publishers ; Amsterdam: In co-operation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 2013).<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>, no. 279","date":2013,"id":6453,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/844154989"},{"boilertext":"George Biörklund and Osbart H. Barnard, Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False (Stockholm, New York [etc.], 1968).","citation":"George Biörklund and Osbart H. Barnard, Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False (Stockholm, New York [etc.], 1968)., no. 54","date":1968,"id":6474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/10926"},{"boilertext":"Ludwig Münz, <em>Rembrandt's Etchings: Reproductions of the Whole Original Etched Work</em> (London: Phaidon Press, 1952).","citation":"Ludwig Münz, <em>Rembrandt's Etchings: Reproductions of the Whole Original Etched Work</em> (London: Phaidon Press, 1952)., no. 226","date":1952,"id":6476,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1534415"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1600-1700","dateend":1659,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Adoration of the Shepherds with the Lamp","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1949-236","inscribed":"Signed in plate, lower left: Rembrandt f.","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nRembrandt illustrated biblical texts throughout his career. During the late 1640s and 1650s he began emphasizing dramatic light and dark contrasts in his religious prints, resulting in a number of intimate and expressive nocturnal scenes. This one belongs to a set of six etchings depicting the infancy and childhood of Christ. Here, the shepherds who found the newborn Jesus lying in a stable appear as a huddle of darkly delineated figures, including a bagpipe player. Together with Joseph and the two oxen, the shepherds frame the sleeping infant and his mother Mary, who are mysteriously floodlit by the small hanging oil lamp.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"K2 paper rotation In the Dark"}],"datebegin":1649,"sortnumber":"1949  236x","published_date":"2026-02-11 07:57:31.175715","objectid":7285,"dimensions":"plate (sheet trimmed to plate): 10.8 × 13.3 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)","on_view":false}