"Relying solely upon the resources of American collections, this exhibition, like its London counterpart, focuses on the period from about 1647 to until the end of Rembrandt's etching activity in the early 1660's. For it is in these later years that Rembrandt, in full comand of his medium, produced his most experimental prints. Twenty-eight subjects have been selected from the more than three hundred which Rembrandt etched. They are exhibited in one hundred and eighteen impressions which display these subjects in as full a progression of states as could be mustered from American collections. In many instances, a number of impressions of the same state are shown"--Introduction.