# The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam

- By: Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
- Date: c. 1650 - c. 1655
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 166 mm x width 235 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1969-222--28030a8056795da7ca1673d41688cfc8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/ogSjJ/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Arquebusiers, who commissioned Rembrandt’s Night Watch, assembled in the two structures at the left in this drawing. The Night Watch hung in the leftmost modern building of the complex from 1642. The nearby medieval city wall tower had a tall pointed roof in Rembrandt’s time. Rembrandt omitted it to showcase the original architecture. He used such old round towers as scenery in his history scenes.