Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
The Rembrandt Plate with Four Different Numbers
The Plate Mark reconciles the catalogue references and state counts attached to Rembrandt’s 1638 etched self-portrait.
Why it surfacedThis unusually focused research page explains how Bartsch 20, Hollstein 20, White & Boon 20, and New Hollstein 170 describe the same plate, while carefully separating a printing plate from any individual sheet. It combines catalogue concordance, provenance, evidence, an impression census, and a public API into a remarkably substantial record for one etching.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.