Catalogue of the loan exhibition of drawings & etchings by Rembrandt, from the J. Pierpont Morgan collection
A 1920 exhibition catalogue issued in San Francisco by the San Francisco Art Association, compiled by J. Nilsen Laurvik, listing Rembrandt drawings and etchings lent from the J. Pierpont Morgan collection. The plates are reproductions for a museum-going public and collectors. The pages show a rotated pen-and-ink sketch of figures in an interior, a grid of small etched head studies, and a full-length etched portrait of a seated man in a fur-trimmed robe beside a window. A designer might take the dense tonal hatching, the varied head poses, and the gridded plate layout as models for hand-drawn texture and sequence.
