5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Small hole in centre; margins frayed and foxed.
= From the series Vedute di Roma. Focillon 775, Hind 69, 1st or 2nd state of 5.
- Browned and laid down. = Title print to the series. Focillon 719; Hind 1, 3rd state of 5.
Idem. (Table of contents and dedication leaf to the series Alcune vedute di archi trionfali ed altri monumenti). Two identical etched cartouches with different texts, each 23,5x35,7 cm., 1748.
= Focillon 42 and 44; Wilton-Ely 104 and 106.
Polanzani, F. (1700-1783). (Portrait of G.B. Piranesi). Engraving, 38,6x29,3 cm., "F. Polanzani faciebat 1750 super. permissu".
- Waterstain in lower left corner, just touching the image; sl. foxed and soiled.
= Frontispiece to the Opere di Archittectura (1750).
- Vertical fold, as often/ usual; two small tears in upper margin.
= From the series Differentes vuës de quelque restes de trois grands édifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est situee dans la Lucanie (Rome, 1778). Focillon, 587; Wilton-Ely 722. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Foxed; closed vertical tear in upper margin and ±3,5 cm. in the image.
= From the series Differentes vuës de quelques restes de trois grands édifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est situee dans la Lucanie (1778). Focillon 589; Wilton-Ely 724.
- Foxed, mostly in upper part and margins.
= Also the title print for the series, Giambattista's final work: Differentes vuës de quelque restes de trois grands édifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est situee dans la Lucanie (Rome, 1778). With the stamp "Bibliotheque Ecole impériale des Beaux Arts" (Paris? not in Lugt) and (ex)library stamp. Wilton-Ely 717. On the authorship of the etchings of this series, cf. Wilton-Ely II, p.777f.
= Hollstein 8, 9, 13 and 15, all 2nd state of 2.
Idem. The village on the riverside. Etching, 10,4x14 cm., "E.6".
= Hollstein 16, unrecorded (3rd ?) state, without address and with different number (E6 instead of E1). Twenty-nine prints are known by this artist.
- (Sl.) foxed, mostly in upper and left margin.
= Rubens, Jewish iconography 1035. "Michal Plonski, poln. Zeichner, Radierer u. Miniaturmaler (...). Weitergebildet in Berlin, Kopenhagen u. Amsterdam. (...) begabter Graphiker (...)." (Thieme-Becker).
AND 2 others by the same. - ADDED 4 others, i.a. a landscape etching by P.A. IMMENRAET.
- Cut to the borderline, otherwise fine. = LNP 45, the 2nd state of 2; Van Huffel 76.
= LNP 34, 6th and final state; Van H. 73. With the Ploos stamp on verso.
Molijn, P. de (1595-1663). Woman with a basket and a boy standing near a peasant seated. Etching from the Set of landscapes with figures (four plates), 15,1x18,5 cm., "4" engr. in lower right corner.
- Later impression on wove paper.
= De Groot, Landscape 86; Freedberg p.38-39 ("the last of the great Haarlem pioneers"); Hollstein 3, 3rd state (of 3).
AND a printdrawing after P. WOUWERMAN.
- Two very vague folds.
= LNP 41, the 3rd and final state; Van H. 146. With the Ploos stamp on verso.
AND an anonymous printdrawing after A. VAN OSTADE.
- Traces of former mount on verso; yellowed. = Hollstein 44, 1st state of 3: without "et exc."
AND 6 engr. portraits after C. VISSCHER and a 19th cent. lithogr. portrait of Willem I.
- Cut to the image; on thick paper. = Hollstein 49, the first and only state.
AND 3 others, i.a. a mezzotint portrait of king Philip IV of Spain by J. GOLE.
= Sliggers/ Van der Steur, Portretten van 100jarigen, portret c.
AND 3 others: engr. portraits of centenarian Jacob van Hoorn and his young wife Jacoba van Selstede and lithogr. portrait of centenarian Johanna de Smeth (from Haarlem).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 34, 2nd state of 2.
AND 3 similar portraits by the same of Johan Polyander van Kerckhoven, Eduard Poppius and Rombout Hoogerbeets.
= All portraits of men who played a part in the conflict between the Remonstrants and Counter-remonstrants.
- Ample margins. = Mauquoy-Hendrickx 12-A; New Hollstein 11-519.
AND ±30 other portraits, i.a. of Aegidius Verhelst (mezzotint by J.J. HAID, margins frayed and soiled), Gerard Honthorst (after A. VAN DYCK), St. Radegund (woodcut by L. BECK or H. BURGKMAIR), Caspar Schwenckfeldt (engraving by B. JENICHEN) and (sm.) portraits of Asian rulers/ dignitaries, i.a. "Cam-Hy emperor of China (...)" (engr. by M. VAN DER GUCHT, 1698), Reşid Mehmed pasha Kütahı (lithograph after G. BOGGI).
- Most (blank) corners strengthened on verso; occas. trifle browned/ foxed.
= Hollstein 345-374: state unidentified.
= Portraits of Menno Simons, Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, Joännes Hus, Jacobus Zonzalus and Donatus (laid down), Phlilip Melanchton, Nestorius, Thomas Muntzer (2 copies), Manes seu Manichaeus Corbicus, Macedonius, Girolamo Savonarola, Arrius Alexandrinus, Photius Iconoclasta and Paulus Samosatenus.