5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Apart from some sl. dustsoiling in margins of first print and a small lacking portion of the blank lower corner of the final print, a fine set.
= 1. Title-leaf; 2. "Schlag-baum vor einen Luchs aufgestelt!"; 3. "Selbst-Geschoss, auf einen Baehren."; 4. "Selbst-geschoss auf ein Schwein in der Suhle."
Idem. Der Reyer wird von den Falcken oben herab geschlagen. Engraving, ±30x21 cm., tipped onto mount.
- Without caption and trimmed within the borderline.
Idem. Falconier Knecht den Uhu auf der Hand führend. Engr. by M.E. RIDINGER after J.E. RIDINGER, ±30x21 cm., tipped onto mount.
- Without caption and trimmed within the borderline.
AND 1 other from the same series (similar condition).
- Lacks 2 engravings. = Thiébaud p.927; Jeanson 574; Schwerdt III, p.65 ("Highly interesting set").
BOUND WITH 2 etchings and aquatint by LEVACHÉ after the same: "La Promenade en Caleche" and "Le Départ pour la Promenade".
- One w. large tear in the image and hole in lower margin; each (sl.) browned and w. some foxed spots. Not examined outside frame.
- Caption cut off. = From the series of 10 engravings showing the Sibyls. Hollstein 11. Rare.
AND an oval engraving after S. VOUET (mirrored), showing Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the borderline; sm. fold and "48" in red pencil in upper right corner.
= Hollstein 3, only state; Bartsch 16 (Van Uden). Rare.
- Sl. browned/ foxed/ some wrinkles. One print w. tear in outer left blank margin. = Delteil 1ff, second state (of 2).
- Very dark impression on (17th cent.?) laid paper with a coat of arms watermark.
= Delteil 20, 2nd state (of 4). With a collector's mark of Bijvoet (not in Lugt). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Greenish stains in lower margin.
= Martens 191. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
= Martens 89, II or IV, without the text below. With the blindstamp collector's mark of Johann Friedrich Frauenholz (Lugt 994). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Ample margins, w. sm. repaired tears along edges and larger tear in left margin. Fine dark impression.
= Martens 298, 2nd state of 3, before letters but with the clouds.
= Proof before letters. Martens 300, 2nd state (of 3). Part of the series Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner. Gravés à l'eau forte par Guil. Kolbe.
- Two sm. closed tears just affecting the image; sm. folds in blank margins of corners.
AND 1 similar etching by the same: "Die Badenden" (waterst. near upper/ lower edge; a few sm. tears in right/ left edge touching the image, sl. frayed).
- Trimmed on the platemark.
= Hollstein 25; Roy G. 105. On thick laid paper with watermark of coat of arms with fleur-de-lis.
- A few very sm. tears in left margin, repaired w. paper strip on verso.
= One of a series of Amsterdam street figures around 1770.
- Without the letterpress explanatory booklet called for by Muller; folded once and foxed.
= F.M. 4361: "Een folio blad waarop in 5 rijen onder elkaar, de 15 verkleinde copien staan, in verschillende groote (...) van 15 zeer lelijke en flauwe zinneprenten in 1778 en 1780 hier verschenen over onze politieke verhouding en betrekking tot Engeland en America, doch vooral over de Gewapende Neutraliteit. (...) Zoowel de plaat als de uitlegging komen zelden voor." The plate showing 15 reduced caricatures plates on the League of Armed Neutrality and the Dutch position with regard to the American Revolution and Great Britain.