6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Cut just outside the borderline, lower margin up to the caption; a few closed tears and holes; somewhat soiled and agetoned.
= From the series Christ, the twelve apostles and St Paul with the Creed (14 engravings).
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; vague brown spot in upper part.
= Filedt Kok 24; New Hollstein 104, only state: "Probably impression of a silver medallion."
= Vincent Jacobsz. Coster, alias Sente Peylder, born about 1553, was an official city wine gauger (for collecting excise on wine). New Hollstein 242.
- 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).
- Trimmed on/ just inside the bordeline. Hollstein 86 yellowed. = New Hollstein 86, 88, 89, 95 and 99, all the first state (of 2); Hollstein Dolendo 30ff.
- Agetoned; sl. soiled; w. paper flaw.
= New Hollstein 176 copy a: "Engravings in same direction, same size and with the same text of the complete set, published by Assuerus Londerseel, before 1595."
- Mostly fine, a few w. sm. defects.
= New Hollstein 340, 4th state of 4 (French edition), 341, 342, 348, 358, 359, 361, 363, 365, 377, 379, 385, 386, 388, 389, 399, 409, 413, 422, 427, 431, 435, 438, 439, 445, 450, 452, 454, 457.
- One print "Sforza" lower right corner torn off, repaired and entirely redrawn; 2x trimmed on the platemark; (partly) trimmed to the borderline.
= New Hollstein 234-237, 1st state of 2.
- Vague horizontal fold; tipped onto mount.
= Bartsch 38; Lewis & Lewis 36, the third state (of 4). From a series of 7 designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau.
- Doubled. Trimmed just inside the borderline.
= Bartsch 42; Lewis & Lewis 42, the 7th and final state. With the collector's stamp of Winfield Robbins of verso (not in Lugt).
- Soiled and stained; lower left corner lacks portion and repaired (not affecting the image).
= State before the name of Carlo Maratti in the lower left corner. Formerly attributed to Pier Francesco Mola. Cf. Bartsch p.203,2 (Mola), and The Illustrated Bartsch (Commentary, Giovane) 007. With the collector's mark of the sculptor Ernest-Theophile Devaulx (1831-1901) (Lugt 670), dated 1879.
AND 3 others.
- All w. ample margins; occas. trifle frayed/ soiled in blank margins; mostly fine.
= This complete series with splendid views is the only etched work by Thomas Girtin. The aquatint additions were made by several contemporary artists, such as Joseph Constantine Stadler and Frederick Christian Lewis. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Cut on/ just within the borderline; sm. waterstain in lower left corner; paper flaw/ crease in right part.
= Rare. With the manuscript collector's mark of "Jo: Schwarzenbold, pictor Augspurg 1813" (not in Lugt). Perhaps Joseph Schwarzenbold (1786-after 1860?). New Hollstein 335.
- Trimmed to the image; sl. fingersoiled and agetoned.
= New Hollstein 14, 5th state of 6 (with the outlines still visible). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark; a few closed holes in upper part and sm. tear in right margin; agetoned.
= New Hollstein 14, 6th state of 6 (all outlines removed).
- Fingersoiled; trimmed 1 mm. outside the borderline.
= Rare. New Hollstein 127, only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Doubled; sm. restoration in pen to borderline in lower right corner; trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
= F.M. 627; New Hollstein 203: "Attributed to Goltzius by Bartsch. Rejected by Hirschmann as 'random attribution' (p.166) and by Strauss and TIB. Attribution to Goltzius confirmed by a document of 1580 according to which the city council of Haarlem payed Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert as publisher and Hendrick Goltzius as engraver for this plate: 'zeekere plaet in coper gesneden nopende de clachte der laste van Haerlem aen den Prince van Orangien.'" Rare print.
- Lower margin w. the caption repaired and strengthened along the edge on verso: lower left corner lacks portion (incl. the printed number "1"), repaired w. later paper and sm. section of image replaced in pen and ink; sm. closed tear (next to the monogram) in upper edge; trimmed 1-2 mm outside the borderline; lower margin trimnmed short, just within the caption.
= Rare. New Hollstein 144.
= New Hollstein 275. Rare. With the collector's mark of Albert Pieter van den Briel (Lugt 407a) and the doublette mark of the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g), and the manuscript collector's mark of Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), dated 1669 (Lugt 1790).
- Second print trimmed to the image, lacking the caption; first print trimmed just outside/ on the borderline, sl. yellowed.
= New Hollstein 129, 2nd or 3rd state of 4 and 131, 2nd state.