5323 - 5647: Gouwen, Willem van der (±1650-±1720).

79 5472 Gouwen Willem van der ±1650 ±1720

79/5472 Gouwen, Willem van der (±1650-±1720). "Een Walvisch lang 70 voeten, gestrandt op de Hollandtse zee-kust, tusschen Schevelingen en Katwyk, in Sprokkelmaandt, 1598." Etching after H. GOLTZIUS/ J. MATHAM, 27,5x33,1 cm., "Gilliam. Van der. Gouwen. sc." in the image, caption below the image, from GROTIUS, Nederlandtsche Jaerboecken (...), 1681, or from BOR, Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolg der Nederlandsche oorlogen (...), ±1680.

- Closed tear on vertical fold.

= Hollstein 1, 1st state (of 2); cf. Hollstein Matham 317; F.M. 1082; Ingalls 359: "It is particularly important as a prototype for both whale print iconography and seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes."

AND 2 other prints: a Winter engraving by Jan de Wit after Jacob Cats (foxed) and an engraving attrib. to Theodor de BRY, "Hev nimum caecis errant connubia fatis", from Emblemata Saecularia, 1596

€ (80-100) 240