Captain William E. Baillie

Captain William E. Baillie is represented here by a small group of etchings, several of them worked with drypoint or plate tone, centred on portraits of bearded old men and on copies after Rembrandt such as The Three Trees. The sheets date from the middle decades of the eighteenth century, spanning 1750 to 1765, with impressions up to that later limit reflecting successive states rather than new compositions. Eleven works make up the holding, and the etchings appear in a range of states, from first pulls to later printings recorded by Meyer. Together they give a compact view of Baillie's activity as a printmaker working in the etching tradition of his time.

11 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Landscape with a Haybarn and a Flock of Sheep (copy) (1750–1810, Met-Objekt 5409)

1750–1810 · Etching and drypoint; first state of two

Landscape with a Haybarn and a Flock of Sheep (copy) (1750–1810, Met-Objekt 5410)

1750–1810 · Etching and drypoint; second state of two

The Three Trees, after Rembrandt (1758, Met-Objekt 5402)

1758 · Etching; second state of six

The Three Trees, after Rembrandt (1758, Met-Objekt 5403)

1758 · Etching with plate tone; third state of six

The Three Trees, after Rembrandt (1758, Met-Objekt 5404)

1758 · Etching, drypoint and roulette; fourth state of six

The Three Trees, after Rembrandt (1758, Met-Objekt 5406)

1758 · Etching, drypoint and roulette; fifth state of six

An Old Man in Profile

1761 · Etching

Old Man with a Long Beard (1761, Met-Objekt 5217)

1761 · Etching and drypoint; third state of three (Meyer)

Old Man with a Long Beard (1761, Met-Objekt 5218)

1761 · Etching; first state of three (Meyer)

Old Man With a Long Beard

1761 · Etching; third state of three

Old Man with Beard and Flat Cap, after Rembrandt

1765 · Etching and drypoint; proof before letters