5355 - 5792 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Unevenly yellowed/ foxed.
AND ±10 issues from Gil Blas, w. col. lithogr. ills. by T.A. STEINLEN.
= Comprising i.a. "'t Huis te Brederode, ten deele nog in Westland", "Ruïne van het Slot te Abkoude, siende naar Baambrugge", "Le Chateau de L'anciene famille de Spangen en Hollande batis l'an", "Brederode in Welstand", "Nieuwer Grondslag van het vernietigde", "Huis te Vreeland; aan de rechter syde" and "Belegering van het Slot Hagestein, door Graave Willem den VI".
= From various works, i.a. L. SMIDS, Schatkamer der Nederlandsse Oudheden.
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline.
= No.16 in the series Venationes (...). New Hollstein (Collaert Dynasty), 1506, 4th state.
AND 2 others by the same after the same: Lion hunt and Camel hunt (both on chine collé?).
- Sl. foxed, mostly in ample margins.
= Attractive print with 9 inventions or discoveries in modern times. I.a. with inset map of North And South America (discovery by Columbus), a clockwork, silkworms, a canon and a still. Each invention/ discovery is illustrated in a subsequent print of the series. With an extensive manuscript collector's mark: "de la bibliotheque des peres Cordeliers d Angers A ponte Garteau(?)" New Hollstein 322, 1st state of 6.
- Cut on the borderline, caption below cut off.
= Part of a series of allegorical prints showing the various abuses of law, called Litis Abusus. Free interpretation after the print by HENDRICK GOLTZIUS. The iconography of the series is probably after Coornhert. New Hollstein 1280. With the collector's mark of G.W. Günther of Nurnberg (Lugt 1124).
- Ample margins; fingersoiled in lower and right margin. Dark impression.
= Leaf from H. NATALIS, Evangelicae Historicae Imagines (...) (Antw., 1593). New Hollstein 1716, 1st state (of 3).
AND 8 other engravings from the same work, by J. WIERIX (Mauquoy-Hendrickx 2052 (2nd state), 2066 (1st state)); A. WIERIX (Mauquoy-Hendrickx 2005 (1st state), 2006 (1st state), 2042 (2nd st.) and 2042 (2nd st.)), H. WIERIX (Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1999 (1st state)) and K. VAN MALLERY (Hollstein 71).
- Vaguely waterstained in upper margin, occas. just touching the plates. Wrappers loose.
= Very rare. No copy traced. Contains etchings after Dominiquino, F. Fanni, Romanellie, J. Palma (by L. Garreau), Tintoreto (by the same) and C. Maratti. The artists of the other etchings are not identified. Kramm states that Gareau was active in Amsterdam in 1783.
- State before/ after the letters and address.
= Part of the series Recueil de 283 estampes gravées à l'eau forte d'après les dessins originaux... que Mons. Evrard Jabach de Cologne. Mythological scene representing Jupiter, flanked by Mercury and Neptune, and pissing in a cloth bag, on the right Oenopeus, arms outstretched, addressing the gods, and nearby a house with his wife standing at a window. In the renaissance this was seen i.a. as the allegory of the three-fathered 'philosophical child' (a symbol in alchemy).
- Sl. yellowed.
= Delteil 3, 3rd state (of 3); Beraldi 3rd state (of 3). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- Verso w. traces of former mounting and partly waterst. (sl. shining through). One engraving w. middle-fold.
= Two different states with differences, i.a. the star is placed over the mountain, not over the banderolle, Alexander VII's coat of arms is shown bottom left, and Lozanus is presenting a plate, not a book.
- Sl. surface dam. (silverfish) in blank margins.
AND 3 other Salon etchings by E. YON after C. BERNIER, "Le Matin", by E. CHAMPOLLION after U. BUTIN, "Départ" and by CH. COURTRY after C. BERNIER, "Janvier (Bretagne)."
- Cut to the plate mark; printing flaw in the centre.
= Hollstein (German) 10. Was active between 1625 and 1629 in Venice for Marco Sadeler. Rare.
- Sl. agetoned; sm. brown stain in the sky. = Bartsch 61 and Le Blanc 47, 2nd state of 2.
AND 5 etchings by A. TEMPESTA, i.a. 3 prints from Ovidius, Metamorphoses (Bartsch 708, 730, 737).
- Soiled, mostly in margins; w. vertical central fold. = Scarce. Hollstein 48, 2nd state of 5.
- Gluestaining along upper blank margin on verso (also visible on recto); cut just within the lower plate margin.
= Dumesnil IX, 135 (1st state (of 2).
- Title leaf cut short, w. sl. loss of text in upper part; plates occas. browned/ foxed.
= Various subjects, i.a. commedia del'arte, soldiers and a fencing duel.
- Trimmed on/ just within the platemark; age-toned. Good strong impression.
= Part of the engraved Small Passion series. Meder 1b/c (of e); Bartsch 3; Schoch I, 45. With a vague unidentified collector's mark on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.