6001 - 6426 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Grey impression, probably washed; left margin chipped, just touching the image.
= Perhaps a late 16th/ early 17th cent. copy. Cf. Meder 39, Schoch etc. 86.
AND 3 others: an etching by Johann Adam KLEIN and two small engravings after Stefano DELLA BELLA, from the work Livre pour apprendre à dessiner.
- A fine copy.Trimmed just outside the borderline; trifle whitish in upper corners from former tipping in w. paper tape (still present).
= Hollstein 7, the only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Lower left corner repaired.
= Dark impression on stiff 18th cent. laid paper. Hollstein 20, 7th state of 7.
= Copy on thick, wove paper.
- A few foxed spots; nevertheless fine.
= Hollstein 76, 2nd state (of 2), with the plate-eges cleaned.
- Trimmed ±3 mm outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 30, 2nd or 3rd state (of 3). With an unidentified collector's mark on verso (Lugt 786).
= Hédiard 173.
- Ample margins; fine.
- Margins occas. sl. creased and dustsoiled; wrapper split on spine.
= From a series of 25 portraits of young women in national dress, one for each letter of the alphabet (excluding W). Comprises: "Bernoise"; "Italienne"; "Japonaise"; "Karolienne (Emp. d'Autriche)", "Livonienne (Emp. Russe)"; "Milanaise"; "Russe"; "Sarde" and "Vénitienne". Colas 1318; Hiler p.396; not in Lipperheide.
- All but two tipped onto mount. Three w. painted black background.
= The 1790 date curiously predates the first ed. of the work (1818). Possibly signed by Mathias DE SALLIETH.
AND an anonymous drawing of a lady doing laundry, w. an unfinished sketch on verso, red chalk on laid paper, first half 19th cent. - ADDED: 5 etchings by Jacob Ernst MARCUS (4x) and Bartholomeo PINELLI (1x).
- Partly sl. yellowed/ duststained in margins.
- One plate sl. foxed.
= Showing traditional costumes from Noord-Holland (3x), Zuid-Holland (1x) and Groningen (1x).
- Partly (sl.) yellowed/ foxed etc.
- Middle-fold as published; sl. waterst. and w. closed tear at lower edge of fold.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Book Illustrator 79; Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 146 (13); F.M. 2827 (17); Lotz, p.105.
- Lacks the etched title.
= Fine impressions on laid paper with 2 different (unidentified) watermarks. Robert-Dumesnil vol.5, 402 - 413. Rare near complete series. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
= Nissen, BBI 161.
ADDED: 3 others, i.a. two botanical handcol. engravings.
- A few engravings sl. foxed/ w. contemp. annots.
= Mostly flowers/ shrubs.
Redouté, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840) (after). "Ilex Cassine angustifolia". "Lycium afrum". "Laurus camphora". "Alnus communis". Four contemp. handcol. stipple-engravings, 22x30 cm. (platemark), w. engr. caption below image.
- Two engravings sl. foxed.
= From M. DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre (2nd ed., 1801-1819).
ADDED: ±40 handcol. engravings/ chromolithographs of flowers, i.a. from Flora and Sylva (1904-1905).
- All plates mould spots (in varying degrees) in upper blank margin and (sl.) foxed. Five plates badly waterstained (affecting the image). Sold w.a.f.
= As Hoola van Nooten wrote in the English language introduction to her book: "This work is particularly addressed to women. Its object, its tendency, its entire scope, all marks it with the special seal of our sex, whose mission and position are admirably described by one of the great writers of the present day, in those words at once so simple and so profound: "Charity in humility". Nor do I consider, that, by the present publication, I am overstepping the boundaries of that sphere. (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.