5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Closed chip and sm. tear in left blank margin (tear just within the image) and sm. tear in upper margin; trimmed just outside the platemark.
= Strong dark impression. On laid paper with watermark showing Gothic letter "P" (prob. 1st half 16th cent.). Bartsch (Dente da Ravenna) 479. With the collector's marks of duc d'Arenberg (Lugt 567) and J. Fred. Bianchi (Lugt 3761). The monogram in the print seems to point to a Salviati, but the attribution is inconclusive. The British Museum, curator comment: "Bartsch erroneously attributed this work to Marco da Ravenna and suggested that it was engraved after Francesco Salviati. The engraving however was made after a woodcut by Giuseppe Porta Salviati (...) as a frontispiece to "Le Sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forlì intitolate Giardino di Pensieri" which appeared in 1540 and again in 1550. (No impression of the woodcut is in the BM.) As Marco died in 1527 the work must have been executed in his manner by a younger artist". However, the curator comment of the New York Metropolitan Museum on the woodcut by Salviati: "The evocative woodcut that adorns the frontispiece of this fortune-telling book is prominently signed by the artist Giuseppe Porta (ca. 1520-ca. 1575) (...), who later took the name Salviati (...). However, the composition is not original to Porta but closely copies an engraving by Marco Dente, a student of Marcantonio Raimondi who died in the Sack of Rome of 1527 (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- All fine w. ample margins.
= Hollstein 5; Hollstein 6 (with the collector's mark of Paul Davidson (Lugt 654)); Hollstein 9 (with the collector/ collection marks of Dr. C. von Guérard († 1904) (Lugt 1109), Städel Museum Frankfurt, legate of J.K. Brönner (1738-1812) (Lugt 306 and 307, 2396)) and Hollstein 13 (w. collector's marks of W.E. Drugulin (1825-1879) (Lugt 2612) and E. Fabricius (± † 1920)(Lugt 847a and 919bis)).
= Hollstein 21, 2nd state (of 2), with the number. With counter watermark "IV". With the collector's mark of Eduard Schultze (Lugt 906).
Idem. The ruins of a temple. Etching, 12x15,3 cm.
- Sl. browned; two weak spots in upper corners, from former tipping-on.
= Hollstein 12, the 2nd state (of 2), with the number added. One of his finest.
AND 3 other small etchings by the same, i.a. Hollstein 43 (3rd state).
= Hollstein 19 and 20, 2nd state of 2 (w. the numbers).
- Upper left corner repaired (w. loss of borderline and blank portion) and w. tear; lower right corner w. vague oblique fold.
= Meder/ Hollstein 199; Bartsch 87. Later impression of state F. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Trimmed ±6 mm within the borderline (with little loss of image). Good strong impression.
= Part of the Passion series. Meder 148; Bartsch 39; Schoch I, 209. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Left blank margin laid down on mount; some soiling mainly in blank margins.
= Meder/ Hollstein 133, before the text; Bartsch 125. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Doubled, closing the split ends of an old horizontal fold; black border in upper left corner trifle dam. (chip of 5x2 mm., not affecting the print); tipped onto mount at centre of top margin.
= Schoch etc. 248f (with the watermark of an eagle with a flower and the splitting of the crack in the lower margin); Meder 211f. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Some foxing. = Le Blanc II, p.173.
AND 2 others, i.a. a copy in reverse after F. BAROCCI, Madonna in the Clouds (trimmed on/ just within the platemark; foxed. Cf. Pillsbury/ Richards 74).
- Sl. foxed.
= An early and rare lithograph. On paper with the watermark of Michael Brandmiller (Austrian, act. 1810-1863).
Bemme, J.A. (1775-1841). (Tools of various professions). Five lithographs, each ±15,5x13,2 cm., 1x signed "Joh. Bemme Az. Lithogr." in pencil, numb. "1" and "3" to "6" on the stone.
- Lacks plate 2.
= Tools of a gardener, carpenter, cook, butcher and wash woman. Plates for an unknown work.
Daumier, H. (1808-1879). "Masques de 1831". Lithograph, 22,5x29,5 cm.
= With the collector's mark of Suzanne Vouay (Lugt 2373). From Le Caricature.
AND 6 others, i.a. (early) lithographs by W.H. FRANQUINET, A. STUTTGÉ and F. PILOTY. - ADDED: 7 letterpress Austrian ordinances, regarding lithography and engraved art, 1802-1839.
= Hollstein 92, 2nd state of 2. With an unidentified collector's mark on verso (not in Lugt?).
AND 3 others by the same: The church in the valley (H. 84, 2nd state), The boat at the river bank (H.88, 4th state), The man between the two fir trees (H.93, 2nd state).
- Trimmed ±5mm outside the platemark. = Hollstein 35, 1st state of 3.
AND 2 others by the same: The cudgel-dam and the covered bridge (Hollstein 45, 5th state) and The cart with the two draught-horses (Hollstein 73, 3rd state).
= Hollstein 86, 2nd state of 2. Slightly later impression.
Idem. The large rock at the river (nightpiece). Etching, 10x12,9 cm.
= Hollstein 31, 5th and final state.
AND 1 other etching by the same: The peasant on horseback (Hollstein 69, 4th state).
= Hollstein 46, 2nd state of 2. With the collection marks of the Rijksprentenkabinet Leiden (Lugt 1665 and 700b).
AND 7 others by the same: The Pilgrim with the dog (H.12, 4th state?), The Fisherman's hut (H.13, 3rd state), The ruined cottage, surrounded by water (H.15, 3rd state), The large rock (H.18, 3rd or 4th state), The hut with the ruinous hedge (H.27, 3rd state), Two boats approach the hut (H.32, 3rd state), The man on the small wooden bridge (H.53, 4th state), The two peasants seated on the hill (H. 71, 2nd or 3rd state, printed from a dirty plate).
- All but one with the same collection marks as above.
- Printed from a dirty plate (?). Lower margins trimmed to the platemark, otherwise broad margins.
= Hollstein 20, 1st or 2nd state. Hollstein mentions that in the first state the sky has spots in the middle and to the right. On 17th century laid paper.
AND 1 other by the same: the Carpenter (Hollstein 49, 3rd state of 3).
- Very fine copy. = Rare portrait of the German moneyer Marquart Rosenberger (1480-1536).
AND 6 other mezzotints, i.a. J. GOLE, (Male dancer) (25,8x17 cm., signed in the plate in lower right corner. Upper margin chipped/ frayed; doubled) and J. GREENWOOD, The Jovial Boor (after A. VAN OSTADE, 14,6x11,3 cm., London, R. Sayer. Trifle yellowed).
- Former central vertical fold (strengthened near lower edge on verso); a few sm. translucent stains (mostly in lower caption); ±5 mm cut outside the platemark.
= Bartsch/ le Blanc 2, 2nd state of 2.
- Occas. soiled in blank margin. = F.M. 3498; Atlas van Stolk 3418.
"Afbeelding van 't Vuurwerk, afgestooken in 's Gravenhage, den 13 Juny 1749, ter occasie van den Aakensche vreede." Large engr. by J.C. PHILIPS after L.S. DE CREUZNACH, 38x44 cm., n.pl., "A. de Groot & Fil." engr. below image.
- Formerly folded; (closed) split at both ends of middle fold; closed tear in lower margin, just touching the image.
= Not in F.M.
AND 8 etchings (of 10) by R. DE HOOGHE from the series of Fireworks in London, Leiden, Maastricht, The Hague, Hamburg, Bois-le-Duc, Haarlem (1689. All laid down, on 5 mounts); F.M. 2743; Landwehr, RdH as etcher p.157).
= Rare.