5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Small wormhole affecting image. = Hollstein 76.
AND 1 other early 16th cent. woodcut (bookillustration?) by monogrammist "D.S".
- All but 4 tipped on mounts; w. various defects (i.a. w. stains).
= From i.a. Livre de Grotesque (1566). Partly on 16th century laid paper. Some with the manuscript collector's mark of Ch. Naudet, dated 1800 (Lugt 1937).
AND 10 other ornamental prints, i.a. the letter "M" (copy after J.T. DE BRY, originally from Nova Alphati Effictio) and a large chinoiserie grotesque ornamental print.
- Sl. frayed and mouldy in left (blank) margin. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Lower margin cut off just below the image and later (re)attached.
= Rare print, not traced. Perhaps a French allegorical print. The two men holding a wine bottle with the text "Vin consolatio super" with a woman between them. The Dutch manuscript caption below reads: "Vincit vim virtus. Peter Cuyper met Kenauw en Peter Hasselaars den Vyventwintighsten in Lentemaand 1573, toonende hunne dartelheit op de zeege by de uitval op de beleegheraars". The caption refers to the Haarlem Siege of 1573, but it is doubtful there is a connection with the print.
- Sl. browned and duststained. = Not found. On laid paper with foolscap watermark.
AND 13 others, i.a. N. DE BRUYN, (The Passion) (8 (of 12) engravings, monogrammed and 1618, from an 18th cent. work) and S. BOURDON, The Holy Family (etching, w. the address of P. Mariette).
- Tear in upper margin, just touching the platemark; foxed.
= Rare, not traced. On laid paper with a watermark showing a monogram "NMH" in a shield, topped by a pole with a snake coiled around (probably German, 17th cent.). Perhaps a lover of Ceres (Vulcanus?).
Duret, P.J. (1729-1796). "1er Clair de Lune". "2me. Clair de Lune". Two engravings after VAN DER NEER, each 25,5x33 cm., w. the address of Amst., P. Fouquet and Paris, Bassan. Neefs, J. (1610-after 1660). The Satyr visiting the peasant family. Engraving after J. JORDAENS, 38x38,5 cm., engr. 4-line caption below image, w. the address of A. BLOTELING.
- Yellowed; paper oiled (?). = Hollstein 24, 3rd state (of 5).
AND 5 others.
- Browned.
= Part of a series of the Five Senses. Possibly by Aert van Waes. Second state with the address of Joachim Ottens (first state was printed by Isaac Vos). Caption reads: "Als ick iou luysen sel, Soo hout iou hooft doch still. Ick sie Gott danck noch wel, al kyck ick door geen brill".
AND 4 others, i.a. by C. VISSCHER after A. Brouwer (allegory of Hearing. Hollstein 48).
- Central horizontal fold.
= Rare, not traced. On slightly thick laid paper with watermark showing a fleur-de-lis in a circle. Vincenco Billy was a print publisher, active in Rome at the end of 17th century and first half of the 18th century.
AND 12 others, all depicting classical sculptures, mostly after J. SANDRART.
= Hollstein 139. Part of the series the Four Elements, representing water.
- Three horizontal folds. = Rare.
- Foxed; trimmed a few mm. outside the borderline.
= From the series of 10 Seascapes. Hollstein 4, the rare 1st state of 3 (before the letters). On laid paper with watermark showing the figure of Freedom in the garden of Holland. According to the annotation on verso, this is the same watermark as the first state impressions in the collection of Rijksprentenkabinet. With the (manuscript) collector's marks of "Wm. Delamotte 1810, R.M[ilitary](?) College Sandhurst", "Dodd 1816" (Thomas Dodd?); Kaye Dowland "1863" (Lugt 691); stamped collector's mark of Vester de Moor (not in Lugt) and "1952 veiling M.(uller?) Herfst Collectie 't Hooft f.60 collectie Vester de Moor" in pencil.
Idem. (A Man-of-war being repaired in the harbour). Etching 17,1x23 cm., signed "L Bak" and "1701" (in reverse) in the plate, with the address of the artist below.
- Somewhat foxed; closed vertical tear in upper margin and a few sm. in the image.
= From the same series. Hollstein 7, 3rd state of 3. With the collector's mark of Vester de Moor (not in Lugt) and H. Lempertz sr. (Lugt 1337) on verso.
- Sl. yellowed. = From the series of 10 Seascapes, Hollstein 4, 3rd state of 3.
- Sl. yellowed. = Part of the series of 10 Seascapes. Hollstein 5, 3rd state of 3.
- Later handcoloured; paper sl. browned; under passepartout.
= Hollstein 4; cf. De Groot/ Vorstman 110-115; cat. Het rijk van Neptunus 33 a-c; Ackley 207-208. The 3rd and final state, with the name of the etcher and without the numbers on 7 etchings. One of only 10 prints the marine painter Backhuizen ever made, done when he was seventy years old.
- Tipped onto mount; brown spots in upper part; old owner's entry cut out.
Wyssenbach, R. (16th cent.). (A fantasy classical building). Woodcut, 19x25 cm.
- Right edge dam. and soiled, sl. affecting the image.
AND 3 other sm. woodcuts.
- A few foxed spots, one sl. worse; 3x trimmed outside the platemark, 1x trimmed to the image.
= According to Wurzbach part of a suite of 9. All 4 on 17th/ early 18th cent. laid paper. Wurzbach 1, 2, 3 ("Die rastende Herde am Venusbrunnen") and 8 ("Das Rendezvous zur Jagd"). With the collection marks of museum Boymans van Beuningen (Lugt 396b (bequest of H. M. Montauban van Swijndrecht (1841-1929)) and 700a (stamp indicating duplicates)).
- Flattened vertical fold. Without the accomp. text leaf.
= F.M. 4486: "Vuile spotprent op de prinsgezinden. Eene zaal, waar in het midden de Prins achter de deur staat en P. Wierdsma, een: Plan om Friesland onder 't juk te brengen aan de op den grond liggende en met vrouwenzadels bedekte heeren: van Hambroick en en Col. Plettenberg aanbiedt.(...) Met gefingeerd adres te 's Hage bij P.F. Gosse, en de namen Went en H.W. Plettenberg als teekenaar en graveur. Zeer zeldzaam. Hierbij "Beknopte verklaaring" (...) zijnde slechts een verdere vinnige ontleding, doch geenszins eene verklaring der prent."
- Slightly yellowed. = F.M. 5378.
"Plegtigheid van het overgeeven der vaandels enz. aan het exercitie genootschap Tot Nut Der Schuttery. te Amsterdam den 13 van Bloeymaand 1786." Engraving by N. VAN DER MEER JR., 43,5x50,5 cm., publ. by J. Sluytman van der Meer. - AND 4 other engravings, i.a. De eerwaardige Nederlander verdeelt zijn schatten (±1780. F.M. 4370; Atlas van Stolk 4322).
- Somewhat waterstained and soiled; margins cut short
AND 2 others similar showing other episodes in the year 1787 in the Netherlands: the Siege of Gorinchem and skirmishes at Amstelveen in September, 1787.
- Some offsetting from former passepartout.
= F.M. 4951a. In 1787 Prussian troops besieged Amsterdam to expel the patriotic troops. Rare view.
"'t Genootschap, Pro Patria; zo als het zig vertoonde in de Nieuwe Kerk, te Amsterdam, bij het ontfangen der geschenken op den 11 Februarij, 1786." Engraving by C. PHILIPS JACOBSZ. after J. BULTHUIS, 28,5x35 cm., Amst., W. Vermandel and J.W. Smit, under passepartout.
- Wide margins. = F.M. 4687a.
"'t Oranjegraeuw schiet hier den Prinsevlieger op, Bepakt met Juk en Hoed, 't vertreden Vryheidteeken (...)". Engraving, 26,8x20 cm., with letterpress verses headed: "Verklaring der bovenstaende prent" in 2 columns below image, 1784.
- Sm. spots repaired/ strengthened on verso; sl. soiled.
= F.M. 4579. Anti-orangist caricature in which the orangist figurehead Kaat Mossel is depicted with her cart full of mussels and described in the text below as "De Schulpteef".
AND 2 others.