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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 429828, member: 56&quot;]It is possible.&nbsp; Those clip art images are much simpler than I would expect from a 19th C publication.</p><p><br /></p><p>As different as this is from the print under discussion, I think it may be the original source material:</p><p><br /></p><p>From a series of 12 etchings after Rembrandt called &quot;Verscheyde Gedachten&quot; (aka - &quot;Plusieurs Pensées gravées d&#039;après les desseins et les ésquisses originaux de Rembrandt; Par M. Pool. A Amsterdam. Sur le Leidse Graft.&quot;)</p><p>by Mattys Pool, 1685-1730</p><p>[ATTACH=full]150492[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3095613&amp;partId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3095613&amp;partId=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3095613&amp;partId=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And I think that might be based on this painting:</p><p><br /></p><p>Simeon in the Temple by Rembrandt, 1639 National gallery of Art Washington</p><p>[ATTACH=full]150491[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/simeon-in-the-temple/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/simeon-in-the-temple/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/simeon-in-the-temple/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Re-interpreted... misinterpreted... what have you, these are the images (not the only ones. but the most likely) I&#039;ve found that show Simeon kneeling.&nbsp; I think that the suite has a French title is important as OP&#039;s engraved block was made in France and the title indicates that these etchings were available there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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