6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Vertical tear in centre repaired; a few other sm. repairs, i.a. in caption near upper right corner, w. added pen; a few sm. holes/ marginal tears.
= Hollstein 6, 1st state of 2 (before the name of Titian).
- Cut well outside the platemark; appears to have been cleaned (vague remnant of an oval collector's mark still visible on verso).
= Hollstein 180; Guilmard p.368; Atlas van Stolk I, 413. With the collector's marks of J.F. Bianchi (1878-1963) (Lugt 3761) and Robert Scholtz (1834-1912) (Lugt 2241) on verso. On this particular print: Expos. Coll. Edm. de Rothschild, Ornemanistes du XVe au XVIIe siècle, no.68. Beautiful transformation print.
Idem. "De Hoopman van weisheyt. Le capitaine prudent." "De Hoopman van Narheit. Le capitaine des follie". Two circular engravings, Ø 12 cm., first print w. engr. "The de Bri f. et ex" and "J. Wolff exc."
- First print cut just within the platemark on the upper, lower and outer points of the circle, otherwise wide margins; appears to have been cleaned. Second print trimmed to the borderline; sm. paper remnants of former mount on verso; strong dark impression.
= Supposedly the portraits of William the Silent and his adversary the Spanish duke Alva. Hollstein 178 and 179; Guilmard p.368; Atlas van Stolk I, 413. All three medallions part of a series of 4 designs for ornamented dishes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Yellowed.
= Consisting of a view (17,9x25,2 cm.) w. (parts of) 5 small other views in left and lower margin, of which 3 w. resp. "Montmartre" and (both in reverse) "au Boulevard des Italiens" and "Chauffeurs publics" in the plate. Beraldi 128.
- (Broad) blank margins foxed/ dustsoiled and w. some creases, chips and (sm.) tears and waterst. in lower left corner.
= Rare complete series: 1. Arrivée des Taureaux/ Llegada de los Toros; 2. Essai et achat des Chevaux/ Ensayo y compra de las Cavallos; 3. Toreros avant la Course/ Toreros antes de la Funcion; 4. Le Picador/ Suerte de Picador; 5. Chevalier tuant le Taureau d'un coup de lance/ Cavallero Rejoneador; 6. Les Banderilleros/ Los Banderillores. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
= On laid paper with double watermark showing a doubleheaded eagle and the monogram "IIF", probably from the Bartsch edition of 1796. Part of the triumphal procession of Maximilian I. This print pairs with the print showing the wagon on which Master Paul Hofhaimer and another musician are playing an organ.
AND 3 others by the same from the same series, no.8, 27 and 130. People from Calicut and the Chamois Hunters, both with the same watermarks.
- Trimmed to the borderline; title w. sm. closed tear. = Hollstein 41, 42, 44 and 45, prob. 2nd state of 3.
AND 5 others by the same: two wolves, a bear, a sheep and a cow.
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; tiny closed tear in the sky; a few spots strengthened on verso, along edges.
= Lieure 670, 1st state (of 2).
- Good impressions on 17th cent. paper without watermarks. Title trimmed to / just inside the borderline; all other engravings trimmed near/ on the plate-mark, without loss of image or text; mostly trifle foxed in outer margin.
= Complete set. Lieure 1404-1414, 2nd state (of 3).
AND 14 other engravings from the series of 27 of La vie de la mère de dieu représentée par de emblèmes (all tipped onto mount, all 2nd state of two. All without the French caption below and mostly trimmed to the vertical borderlines; partly sl. foxed. Lieure 626-640).
- A few sm. brown spots; trimmed ±1 cm. outside the platemark; sm. closed hole near centre.
= On 17th century laid paper with small monogram watermark. Lieure 566, 1st state of 2. With the collector's mark of H.C. Valkema Blouw (1883-1953) (Lugt 2505). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
- Collector's mark shining through in the image; a few spots strengthened on verso; trimmed on / just outside the platemark.
= Lieure 665, 2nd state. With the collector's mark of Albert van den Briel (1881-1971) (Lugt 407a).
= Modern impression (1960's) on Arches paper from copied copperplates by the Chalcography department of the Louvre. Lieure 654.
- Good impressions on 17th cent. paper without watermarks. All engravings trimmed near/ on the plate-mark, without loss of image or text.
= Complete set. Lieure 1404-1414, 2nd state (of 3), with the engr. captions but before numbers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Tipped onto mounts; plate 1 (left part of the upper border) waterstained.
= Siège de la Citadelle de St-Martin dans l'Île de Ré. Lieur 656-659, 2nd state.
- The printed caption below cut off; trimmed to the image; glue stains from former mount on verso, sl. shining through; dark impression.
= Rare. Bartsch 99 (Bartsch attributed this print to Caraglio). A rather erotic scene. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Old horizontal fold; blank margins (badly) dam.
AND 1 other contemp. handcol. lithograph by PIGAL, "Tel maître, tel valet" (w. the address of Noël & Dautry). - ADDED 10 others, all 19th/ early 20th cent., i.a. by Théophile STEINLEN, J. HARDY, Lida WEIMANN (pen and ink drawing of an elegant woman catched by the wind), Abel PANN (Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit) and H. PETITJEAN.
= F.M. 3553a.
- Restored/ doubled copy; right margin yellowed.
= Possibly a proof before letters ("Americanorum Rex, Guisius").
- Sl. foxed/ soiled; 1 engraving with some handcolouring. = Hunt 241; Nissen BBI 376a
- Vaguely stained (verso worse). = New Hollstein 118f.
AND 1 other similar etching probably by the same, Country village with sheep and a sitting shepherd (numb. "18" in the plate. Stained; New Hollstein 131).
= Two etching after the so-called Master of the Small Landscapes. An anonymous landscape draugthsman who, over the centuries, has been identified as i.a. Cornelis Cort, Pieter Brueghel, Hans Bol and, most recently and most convincingly, as Joos van Liere (±1530-1583).