"My father engraves as well as anyone.. ..just the other day he engraved a curious woman with a pap pot \ pap-potgen \ that gave everyone a pleasant surprise."
— Rembrandt

January 1, 1970

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In 1665 Titus [the only son of Rembrandt] was in the city Leiden, acting as Rembrandt's agent, attempting to convince the bookseller Daniel van Gaesbeecq that his father was certainly capable of engraving a portrait of the Leiden scholar Joan Antonides van der Linden [List of rectores magnifici of Leiden University]