5323 - 5647 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Soiled in upper right part.
= 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.
- Fine impression, trimmed on the platemark.
= Hollstein 2, the 1st state (of 2) before the number. With the collector's mark of Charles Howard Hodges (Lugt 552).
Idem. The Mules at the door of a stable. Etching from the series of Various animals (8 plates),11,8x16,9 cm.
- Trimmed just outside the border line.
= Hollstein 8, the 1st state (of 2) before the number. With watermark "PLv(?)".
AND 1 other from the same series: Three cows and sleeping herdsman (Hollstein 2, 2nd state of 2. Grey impression).
- Trimmed just outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 17, 1st state of 2, before the borderline. With an unidentified armorial collector's mark, not found in Lugt.
Idem. Landscape with two trees. Etching, 3,3x4,8 cm. (platemark).
= Hollstein 18, 1st state of 2, before the borderline. With the same collector's mark as above.
Idem. A woman seated. Lozengeshaped etching, 4,7x4,7 cm. (platemark).
= Hollstein 19, only state. With the same collector's mark as above.
Idem. A Horseman. Etching, 3,3x3,3 cm. (platemark).
= Hollstein 20, 1st state of 2, before the borderline. With the same collector's mark as above. A rare set of the 4 smallest etchings by the artist.
- 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 caricature plates on the League of Armed Neutrality and the Dutch position with regard to the American Revolution and Great Britain.
= With the collector's stamp of Jules Gerbeau (Lugt 1166) in lower right corner above the signature. Lotz-Brissonneau 236
- Sl. yellowed; some foxing/ soiling; cut on/ just inside the image; repaired section in right blank margin.
= New Hollstein 97b. With the collector's stamp of Pierre Sentuc on verso (Lugt 3608).
- Cut to/ just inside the borderline.
= New Hollstein 90b. With the collector's stamp of Pierre Sentuc on verso (Lugt 3608, sl. shining through).
- Small repaired spot in outer lower margin (sl. affecting image); some foxing/ dustsoiling.
= Hollstein 49, the 1st state (of 2), before the signature. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Sl. browned; ample (partly browned) margins, well outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 20, 8th state, the address erased. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Closed crack on the right; sl. wear along the edges of the panel.
- Later impression on velin paper; trimmed on the platemark.
= Mannocci 18, the 6th and final state. "The greatest of all Claude's etchings seems to me to be the Bouvier. In quality it is surprising, and in touch magical - one never tires of wondering at it. Though highly finished it has the true ring of an etching, and in texture it is what the printers of steel engravings would call 'a rotten plate'. It need scarcely be said that this rottenness is its chief recommendation" (quote by F.S. Haden in About Etchings (London, 1879, p.39)).
Idem. L'Apparition (The vision). Etching, ±1630, 10,3x17 cm.
- All corners chips in blank margins.
= Mannocci 5, the 5th state (of 5). Nineteenth century impression on velin paper.
- Trimmed a few mm. outside the platemark, corners of the leaf rounded.
= Nineteenth century impression on velin paper. Mannocci 19, state 7 (of 7).
Idem. Scene des brigands (Landscape with brigands). Etching, 12,6x19,7 cm., w. "Claudius in sup. P" vaguely engr. below the image.
- Trimmed a few mm outside the platemark.
= Nineteenth century impression. Mannocci 11, 9th and final state; Robert-Dumesnil 12.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the platemark.
= Nineteenth century impression on velin paper. Mannocci 15, the 8th state (of 8); Robert-Dumesnil 15.
Idem. Le Dessinateur (Coast scene with an artist). Etching, 12,8x18 cm.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the platemark.
= Nineteenth cent. impression on velin paper. Mannocci 36, 5th and final state.
- All fine.
= Comprises engravings from i.a. A. FOKKE SIMONSZ, De vaderlandsche historie in themata, early 19th cent.; J. WAGENAAR, Vaderlandsche historie,1749-1759 and J. KOK, Vaderlandsch woordenboek, 1785-1799.
- Verso traces of former mounting in upper margin; small stain on the nose. = Hollstein 4; F.M. 3340a.
- Mostly fine.
= Comprises i.a. "Grafstede te Delft opgerecht ter eeren van Willem van Nassau"/ "Afgrijselijke wreedheid der Spanjaarden in de plonderinge van Antwerpen gepleegt aen seekere Bruyd" (both from P. Chrisz. Bor, Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden, 1679-1684. Klaversma/ Hannema 271-274), "De groote Vizier doet eenige honderden der Eet-verwanten dooden int Iaar 1688" (1689), "Pierre Pietersz Bekjen brulé à Amsterdam" and "L'Empereur Maximin fait bruler un grand nombre de Chretiens environ l'An 237" (from J. Bout, 't Merg van de Historien der Martelaren, early 18th cent. Klaversma/ Hannema 286-287).
- Ample margins dustsoiled and w. waterstain in upper margin.
AND 9 others, i.a. by Jacques CALLOT and PERELLE.
- With (a few) duststains in margins, a few touching the image; three prints w. sm. waterstain in lower blank margin.
= All on 17th (?) cent. laid paper w. ample margins. Bartsch 52, 57, 58 and 60, all 2nd state.
= Depicting the French naval brig 'Abeille', firing on 'Alacrity', a British brig. Leading to the promotion of the French captain of 'Abeille', Ange René Armand-Mackau, to the rank of lieutenant.
- Lacks the two text lvs, title-page and possibly 2 plates; plate I browned in blank margins and sl. foxed in all margins; plate II sl. foxed in blank margins. Frontwr. sl. foxed.
= First published in 1810, this is probably the 3rd edition. Early instance of lithography: cf. Dussler p.110, IV; Nissen BBI, 1329. Very rare.