Rembrandt at the door of the Amsterdam anatomy theatre. Process print, 1927, of an engraving by C. L. van Kesteren after C. Bisschop.

The engraving after the nineteenth-century Dutch artist, C. Bisschop, depicts the artist Rembrandt at the door of the Amsterdam anatomy theatre that was situated in St Anthony's weigh house, on the upper floor, between the years of 1619 - the date that appears on the door next to the skeleton - and 1639. The purpose of his visit to the anatomy theatre would have been to make studies for his painting of 1632, The anatomy of Dr Nicolaas Tulp, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Rembrandt later painted another anatomical dissection in 1656, The anatomy of Dr Joan Deyman (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)