5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Somewhat foxed; ample margins frayed and first print w. closed tear and hole in left blank margin.
= Bartsch 36 and 37. Part of a series of theatrical backdrops. "They were made as illustrations to the musical pastoral fable 'La sincerità trionfante' 1639 (libretto by Ottaviano Castellil and music by Angelo Cecchini) commissioned by François-Annibal d'Estrées, Marchese di Coeuvres on occasion of the birth of the Dauphin (future Luis XIV)" (British Museum). On laid paper with watermark showing a fleur-de-lis on top of a triple hill and with monogram AN, all within a double circle.
Gimignani, G. (1611-1681). (Semiramis leaving her toilette to quell a revolt). Etching, 19,7x27,4 cm., w. the address of Domenico de Rossi, Rome, (1647).
- Vertical fold; brown offsetting in left blank margin, from paper remnant on verso. = Bartsch 22, 2nd state.
AND 4 others.
- Rich impression. = Verso w. the collector's stamp of P.W. van Doorne (Lugt 4731).
- Good impression; trimmed outside the borderline; 2 vertical blank printing folds in the image; edges neatly mounted on later laid paper.
= Hollstein 3, 2nd state (of 2), with strong borderlines and the number added.
AND 2 others, i.a. a landscape etching (Hollstein 36) by JAN VAN ALMELOVEEN on wove paper.
- Sl. grey impression. Upper edge worn/ trifle dam. = Hollstein 28, only state. Rare.
- Both (sl.) (finger)soiled in the margins.
= Rare. Probably part of an unidentified series. Hansen was a student of J.A. Daiwaille who owned a lithography business between 1822 and 1826. Perhaps created during that period.
- Present are 1-9, 12, 14 and 18.
= Rare series of propaganda prints, published without address in 1829. It shows king William I of the Netherlands on various occasions and situations, i.a. meeting people incognito and presenting himself as a liberal and benevolent king.
= A young boy, said to be a son of Mather Brown, sitting in a landscape with hands clasped on his lap, looking upwards; after Reynolds (Mannings 2046). Proof before letters and before publication line.
= Pennington 731, 2nd state (of 2).
Idem. Merchants: wife of Holland. Etching, 9,3x5,9 cm. (platemark), signed "WHollar fecit 1644 London" and "Mercatoris Hollandici Uxor" in the plate.
= Parthey 1826. Fine and delicate print. From the series Theatrum Mulieris.
AND an etched portrait by the same of Johannes de Reede lord of Renswoude (Parthey 1487).
- Sl. foxed.
= Title to the atlas by J. OGILBY, Britannia (...) or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales: By a Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Roads thereof (London, 1675). With a miniature inset plan of London in one of the flags.
= Pennington 1205; New Hollstein 1108.
AND 1 other landscape etching by the same, framed together w. the above (Pennington 1242).
- All sl. yellowed. = Pennington 522ff.
- Mounted on board; yellowed; a few tears/ dam. spots.
= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as bookillustrator 97.
= Probably printed by the Nuremberg publisher David Funck (act. 1682-1709) who bought all the plates by the Hopfer family and numbered them for his restrikes. On slightly thick late 17th/ early 18th cent. paper with unidentified watermark. Hollstein 39, II; Bartsch VIII, 283, 35. Le Blanc II, 388, 45. With the collector's marks of Thomas Graf (1878-1951) (Lugt 1092a) and freiherr Adalbert von Lanna (1836-1909) (Lugt 2773). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Professionally lifted from mount, w. paper remnants on verso,
= From A. de PLUVINEL, l'Instruction du Roy en l'exercise de monter a cheval (1625, prob. 2nd ed.). Hollstein 175 (the entire publication).
AND 5 others from the same work.
- (Sl.) yellowed; one print w. some dam. spots in image; usual defects from former framing.
= All depicting racing horses and their jockeys, i.a. "The Trotting Queen Maud S.", "The Great Pacer Johnston" and "The Grand Young Trotting Stallion Axtell".
= I.a. a hunter trying to lure a fox with a decoy and a hunter waiting behind some reed.
= From an unidentified 17th century edition of CH. D'ARCUSSIA, La fauconnerie ... divisee en cinq parties (Paris, 1615-1650). Cf. Harting 153 (note). Nissen, IVB 35; Schwerdt 41; Souhart 16; Thiébaud 28 & Suppl. col. 1050. Wellcome I, 388; Lindner 11.0077.01.
"Falco Rubeus Rother Falcke, Falco Aliter, Falco alies (...)". Engraving, 18,5 x 29,5 cm.
= Plate 12 from J. JOHNSTON, Historiae Naturalis. De Avibus Libri VI (Frankfurt a.M., Matthias Merian, 1657).
AND 4 other similar prints, i.a. "Le Faucon Sort" (etching by R. DE LAUNAY after DE SEVE, from DE BUFFON, Histoire naturelle (1770)).
- Some foxing in margins.