4442 - 4494 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS and related prints
- Cut short in lower blank margin w. loss of captions.
- Both w. caption cut off and mounted on verso.
WITH: "Vue de la Tour de la S. Croix à Amsterdam du coté de la Nouvelle Auberge." Contemp. handcol. engr. view, w. engr. caption above and below image, Augsb., Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux, ±1770 (trifle frayed in top margin (not affecting image)). - AND 1 other of "De Groote, of Sint Laurens Kerk te Rotterdam zooals hy was, 1644" (handcol. optical view, n.pl., n.publ., ±1770). - ADDED: 1 other not related.
- Captions not visible; sl. foxed in skyarea; not examined outside of frame.
= "Gesicht by de Koekamp; tot aan de Leidsche Brug". Sixt v. Kapff 215. Nice print showing an itinerant printseller.
ADDED: "Prospectus Pontis B.V. Mariae, versus Palatian Regii, Parisiorum. Vuë du Pont Notre Dame, vers le Louvre a Paris." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin, Italian, German and French below, n.pl., n.publ., ±1770, framed.
- Sl. fingersoiled.
AND: "Vüe Septentrionale de la grande Place dite de la Carrière à Nancy". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, French caption, Paris, Daumont, ±1750, framed.
- Fine copy.
= Nice view of Huis ten Bosch, a fancy coach drawn by six horses just arriving. From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
- Margins dust- and fingersoiled along edges, image fine; margins sl. frayed; lower margin cut to the platemark; laid down on stiff contemp. paper w. manuscript Dutch caption on verso.
= After the painting by Joseph Vernet, who painted all French harbours by royal request.
AND 2 others by the same after the same, showing views of Toulon: "Der alte See-Haven zu Toulon wie solcher auf der Seite beij den Kornhäussern anzusehen (...)" and "Der Zweijte Theil der Stadt und Rhede oder des Ancker-Ort zu Toulon" (left part of a diptych showing a panoramic view on the mooring harbour of Toulon). - ADDED: 4 others similar by the same showing London: "Vue de la Maijson de Northumberland à Charing Cross de Londres", "Vuë de Londres sur du côte du Sud-est depuis la Tour jusqu au Pont de Londres", "Vuë de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire, qui comprend la Façade, et le Côté Occidental de Londres" and "Vue du Pont de Westminster du Côte du Nord de Londres".
- Waterst. in lower margin and upper corner, affecting image. = Sixt v. Kapff K253.
"Gezicht van de Nieuwe Doopsgezinde Kerk, de Weesbrug en Domstoren". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by G.G. WINCKLER after J. VAN HILTROP, engr. captions above and below image, numb. "294", Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770.
- Waterst. in left and right margin, just touching the image. = Sixt v. Kapff K254.
- Waterstained in lower margin, especially lower right corner.
= Nice and lively view. Sixt v. Kapff K 252.
"Gesigt van de St. Mariae Plaaz na de Sadel-Straat en Doms tooren te Utrecht."
Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by G.G. WINCKLER after J. VAN HILTROP, engr. captions below, numb. "291" in upper right corner, Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770.
- Small repaired tear affecting image: upper left and lower right corner waterst.; sl. foxed.
= Sixt v. Kapff K 251.
- Vague waterst., especially in upper lef corner and in centre.
= Attractive view with a hunting party in the foreground.
AND 3 others similar by the same after the same, all views of Versailles and 3 (dam.) contemp. handcol. engr. optical views of Marseille and Menorca.
"Prospect der berühmtem Heiligen Dreyfaltigkeits Säule, auf dem Graben in Wienn." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by SICHNIT, w. engr. captions in German and French above and below image, Augsb., l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts Libereaux, ±1770.
AND 2 others similar, both contemp. handcol.: "Prospect der Kayserl. Königlichen Post ohnweit dem Stuben-Thor in Wienn" (fine copy) and "Prospect der Collegiat-Kirch zum Heil.-Creuz, samt der Statue des Heil. Johannes Nepomuceni zu Breslau" (sl. duststained and frayed in upper and lower margin).
- The engr. caption lacking or hidden under passepartout.
= Ingalls 151. Copy in reverse of the print published by Probst (Ingalls 147). The final print from a series of 4 showing the Greenland whaling fleet.
- Old vertical flattened creases in centre; vaguely waterst. in upper left corner.
= Sixt v. Kapff K 412; Ingalls 145.
- Yellowed. = Attractive and scarce view. Sixt von Kapff K263.