5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Middle fold; ample margins; sl. frayed. = F.M. 4981a; Atlas van Stolk 4899.
"Beëdiging van het regeerings-reglement der Stad Haarlem, op den 5den September 1787." Engr. view by J. DE WIT and P.H. JONXIS after W. HENDRIKS, 25,5x37 cm., w. remarque.
- Small restoration to upper margin. = F.M. 4909; Atlas van Stolk 4778.
- Slightly browned; sl. foxed.
= F.M. 4986a (chapter "Zinneprenten op het herstel des stadhouders", 1787): "De Oranjeboom, waaraan de portretten in medaillon van den Stadhouder, Gemalin en drie kinderen en onderaan die zijner vier voorouders, wordt door den Pruissischen adelaar beschermd."
- Most tipped onto paper mount; nevertheless fine. = F.M. 5407a.
AND a wedding certificate, dated "1799".
- Left edge w. sm. repairs; closed tear in lower part; vague horizontal central fold.
= Early impression. From the series Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Bartsch 89. With the collection stamps of the British Museum (Lugt 302 and 305 (stamp for duplicates)).
- Fine. = Hollstein 28, 1st state of 2. On thick laid paper with ample margins.
AND 4 other etchings by the same: A woman smoking (Hollstein 11, 2nd state of 3); The Smoker (Hollstein 13, 1st state of 3); Seated man with his hat in his right hand (Hollstein 17, 1st state of 2) and The Group at the fireplace (Hollstein 23, 1st state of 2).
- Two vague waterstains and a few vague foxed specks.
= Hollstein 29, probably the third and final state.
AND 1 other etching by the same, Three Peasants by a Fireplace (Hollstein 23).
- Sl. foxed; trimmed just outside the platemark; somewhat grey impression, more towards the left side.
= Rare. Pauli/ Hollstein 25. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; sl. grey impression; laid down on later paper.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 24; New Hollstein 24, prob. 3rd state. With the collection's mark of Fürstlich Waldburg Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Fine; trimmed just outside the platemark. = Hollstein 81; Bartsch.77; Pauli 81. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Cut 2 mm outside the borderline; foxed; printed from a sl. dirty plate, causing sl. toning.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 92, 2nd state of 2.
- Trimmed on the border; trifle fingersoiled. Fine strong impression.
= Pauli / Hollstein 13, 3rd or 4th state of 4. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Upper left corner w. sm. chip; sl. fingersoiled and some foxing; trimmed on/ just outside the image.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 86, 3rd state of 3.
- Fine, trimmed 1 mm outside the borderline.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 34, 5th state of 5. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Probably washed, 2nd print weak on the left side. = Bartsch 137 and 138; Pauli 899 and 891.
- Sl. foxed in margins. Otherwise fine. = De Vesme 782.
AND 2 others by the same, incl. a copy in reverso of the preceding w. publisher's address of Jeremias Wolff, Augsburg (sl. waterstained in upper right corner).
- Upper margin frayed, a few sm. tears just within the image; sl. yellowed; central vertical fold strengthened on verso.
= The only known print by Cornelius van Bellekin, from JEAN LE CARPENTIER, L'Histoire généalogique des Pais-Bas ou Histoire du Cambray et du Cambresis (Leiden, 1664). It shows the states general of the prince-bishopry of Cambray in session. Van Bellekin is mostly known as a painter and engraver of mother-of-pearl.
= Each engraving depicts eggs in their nests. With the accompanying text lvs.