6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Doubled; trimmed to/ just outside the borderline. Sl. grey impression.
= Strauss 344; Hollstein 218, 2nd state (of 3). The famous "Goltzius dog".
- Cut to/ just outside the borderline w. the caption cut off; upper right corner w. a repair; tiny closed tear in left margin, ±0,5 mm within the image; overall sl. fingersoiled. Good strong impression
= Hollstein 255 ; New Hollstein 288. With the doublette stamp of the print cabinet of Leyden University (Lugt 700b) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Sl. foxing, mostly in lower part; vague horizontal crease, w. 2 tiny holes. On thick laid paper.
= New Hollstein 13, 3rd state of 3; Hollstein 14, the 3rd state (of 5), the number "6" added, before the address of C.J. Visscher. Strauss 317: "this "Holy Family" is counted among Goltzius' "master engravings"". From the series of 6 engravings depicting the life of the virgin, the so-called Master pieces. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
= Hollstein 34, the second state (of 2).
- A few specks; trimmed on/ just outside the border line; a few brown stains on verso.
= New Hollstein 31, 2nd state of 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Grey impression; cut just outside the borderline. = New Hollstein 234.
- First print trimmed on/ just within the borderline; 2nd print somewhat unevenly browned; trimmed just outside the borderline.
= New Hollstein 130, 3rd state of 3 (numb. 63) and 131, 2nd state of 3 (numb. 3).
- Trimmed outside the border line, prob. on the platemark.
= Dark, strong impression. Rare. Hollstein 168; New Hollstein 170. Plate 7 (of 8) of the series of Roman Heroes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Closed tears/ repaired sections near centre and in lower left corner; foxed spots, mostly in lower part; unevenly browned; a few worn/ nibbled spots; trimmed on/ just within the borderline.
= (Very) rare. New Hollstein 311, 1st state of 3.
- Trimmed to the borderline.
= Rare. New Hollstein 149, possibly part of an unfinished series of the Seven planets.
= From the series of the Four Elements. New Hollstein 653, 3rd state of 3. With the collector's mark of Friedrich II August of Saxony (Lugt 971) on recto.
- Dam. (repaired) spot in upper margin. = Hollstein 731 copy a/I; Bartsch 84.
- Cut on/ just within the platemark; some parts strengthened on verso; a few sm. tiny closed marginal tears; sl. fingersoiled.
= New Hollstein 398, attributed to Jan SAENREDAM. From the series of The Wives of Patriarchs.
- Narrow paper strip on verso outer edges (from former mount/ passepartout); trimmed to the image.
= On contemporary laid paper. With 19th century manuscript collectors mark not found in Lugt ("A. W...?" and "847") and a collectors's mark "PMMH" (Pieter Hoogeweegen?, not in Lugt) and Albert Pieter van den Briel (Lugt 407a); Hollstein 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- Some small marginal tears; verso upper margin traces of former mounting.
= Delteil 16; Harris13, 3rd edition.
- First two and final etching (badly) browned; a few etchings w. some smudgy colouring; sl. fingersoiled; partly printed eskew. Sold w.a.f.
= Series A, no.10-12; series B, no.1-12 (complete); series C, no. 3-6 (or 7) and 8-12; series D, no.1-4 and 8-12; series E, no.1, 4-7 and 10-12; series F, no.1-11; without series number, no. 1-4.
- Three plates w. sm. brown stain in lower (blank) margin. A good/ fine copy.
= Complete set of all 7 series (marked A to F, the last series without letter), each print w. series letter, number (1 to 12) and title engr. in caption. The 2nd state (of 3) of this fine series of Dutch sailing vessels. See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8 ("The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments"), p.20ff and no.191-202.
- Rebacked; binding browned and sl. rubbed. A fine copy.
= Complete set of all 7 series (marked A to F, the last series without letter), each print w. series letter, number (1 to 12) and title engr. in caption. The 2nd state (of 3) of this fine series of Dutch sailing vessels. See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8 ("The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments"), p.20ff and no.191-202.
- Two engravings very vaguely waterst.; otherwise fine.
= See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8: "The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments".
- Occas. browned.
Roux, Jacob, Christian (early 19th cent.). (Anatomical view of the male erogenous zones, showing arteries). Two partly handcol. lithogr. plates, each 71x51 cm., from TIEDEMANN, Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani, 1822.
- Each sl. foxed.