5323 - 5647 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Sl. browned.
= From the series of 12 Months. Shows 48 saints connected to the specific name days, i.e. Saint Hugo on April 1, Saint Erkenbod on April 12. Probably French or Spanish Netherlands. On laid paper with a watermark showing a horn upside down (!) in crowned shield, below the monogram "LDM".
- First print trimmed on the borderline and sl. yellowed; 2nd and 3rd print w. ample margins.
= From the series of six landscapes: Hollstein 60 (3rd state of 4), 62 (4th state of 4) and 65 (3rd state of 4). The 2nd and 3rd print on thick 18th century laid paper.
Idem. Temple. Square Stone. Sacrifice. Three (of 4) etchings, each 10,8x16,3 cm., 1684 and 1688.
- First print w. ample margins on thick 18th century paper; sl. foxed, mostly in right margin; 2nd print w. annot. in pen and ink and pencil (collector's mark?) in lower margin.
= Part of the series of 4 landscapes: Hollstein 29-31. Second print with the collector's mark of J.P.M. Cerroni (Lugt 1432) on verso.
AND 5 others by the same, incl. 1 duplicate: Hollstein 29, 34, 47, 58 and 59.
- Brown spot in lower section.
= Hollstein 21. With an unidentified circular collector's mark with monogram "G+W D" (not in Lugt).
Idem. (Terrace garden view with flight of stairs). Etching, ±14x20 cm., signed in the plate, w. the address of A.F. Van Meulen.
- Sl. foxed. = Hollstein 47. From the series of 6 garden views.
AND 2 others: an arcadian landscape by Franciscus de NEVE (w. brown stains. Hollstein 6) and "Castellum Strijen" by DIRCKSZ. SANTVOORT.
- Fine impression w. small margins. = Hollstein 126. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- Partly waterst. in lower blank margin (not affecting image); title duststoiled and reattached; sl. fingersoiled; a few prints trifle yellowed and foxed; 2 heraldic bookpates on upper pastedown; binding w. minor imperfections.
= Hollstein 340b and 341-457; cf. Cockle 79 (English ed., 1607); cf. Lipperheide Qb18 (Dutch ed. 1607); Jähns p.1005ff. The famous manual on handling muskets and pikes by Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629). For the complex history of publication of the various (Dutch, German, English, French and Danish) editions in the years 1607-1608, see catalogue Le héraut du dix-septième siècle. Dessins et gravures de Jacques de Gheyn II et III, no.37 (Paris, Institut Néerlandais, 1985, with literature). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- A few spots; two sm. holes in upper margin, 1x just within the image.
= New Hollstein 8. From the series of Septem Sapientum Græciæ Icones (Seven wise men of Greece).
- With wide, ample margins.
= Rare, this print not traced. Not in New Hollstein (Van der Borcht or Bol). Hollstein (Julius Goltzius), lists 8 prints after Bol with landscapes with scenes from the Old and New Testament, divided in two series, each numbered 1 to 4 and published by Janssonius (Hollstein 1-8). Not specified by Hollstein which scenes and without images. New Hollstein (Bol) lists those 8 prints as no.11-14, together with the 4 prints (rejected as Bol) R22-25. Those last 4 prints are numbered 1 to 4, so they are probably the same as the 4 (of 8) as described in Hollstein (Julius Goltzius). However, the engravings in New Hollstein, Bol 11-14, are only partly numbered in the edition by Janssonius (with NH 15 numbered "5"!). So it is not certain if these 4 are part of the 8 listed under Julius Goltzius. There is an engraving in the Rijksmuseum by Goltzius after Bol: Abraham kneeling for the three angels, numbered "2"(according to the museum, Hollstein (Julius Goltzius) 2). This print is for some reason omitted from the New Hollstein (Bol). Although the name of van der Borcht is on our print, the style is very similar to the print in the Rijksmuseum and the 8 prints in the New Hollstein (11-14 and Rejected prints 22-25). So they are probably all by the same artist and part of an (unfinished?) series of biblical scenes. Cf. New Hollstein (Hans Bol) 11-14 and Hollstein (Julius Goltzius) 1-8.
- Closed tear on vertical fold.
= Hollstein 1, 1st state (of 2); cf. Hollstein Matham 317; F.M. 1082; Ingalls 359: "It is particularly important as a prototype for both whale print iconography and seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes."
AND 2 other prints: a Winter engraving by Jan de Wit after Jacob Cats (foxed) and an engraving attrib. to Theodor de BRY, "Hev nimum caecis errant connubia fatis", from Emblemata Saecularia, 1596
- Margins extrended w. a (sl. later?) blue and black wash border.
- A few duststains in blank margins.
- Trimmed on/ just inside the borderline. Outer left edge laid down on mount.
= New Hollstein (Heemskerck) II.406, 2nd state of 3 (Hollstein mentions that this print is numb. "14").
"Et Dominus Deus in terra inculta plantabat hortum, et nominem in illo posuit." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin, French, Italian and German, Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1780, framed. - AND 3 other biblical engravings.
= From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
= Showing the events during the Dutch Revolt in the southern and northern Netherlands: the siege of Steenwijk, the battle near Aumale and The fall of Kinsale to the English in 1602.
= Parthey/ Pennington 912, only state.
= Title (Pennington 2041); A board, heron and other game (stained in right margin. Pennington 2060) and Three boars and a deer (Pennington 2062).
- Incl. 2 duplicates (no. 2 and no. 5). = New Hollstein 1834ff.
= Hollstein 189-198; F.M. 2905-2. Showing Mary II on her death-bed, attended by William III, Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, doctors and courtiers.
Idem. "Paulus Thebanus." "Majorinus Numida." "Theodorus Sutor." Three engravings, each ±26x15 cm., from G. ARNOLD, Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testament, 1688.
= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book illustrator: p.270.
AND 4 others by the same, i.a. "De verovering van Coeverden met Casteel" and "Tweede victorieuse Zee-slag, door de Nederlanders tegen de Franse en Engelse Zee-machten bevochten".
- Occas. sl. stained; all w. remnants of former mount on verso. = Landwehr, R. de Hooghe 39.
AND 2 others, i.a. by Johannes Collaert.