5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Stain (repair?) in upper right corner.
= Meder 191 h, watermark 188 (coat of arms of Württemberg); Schoch etc. 169, 3rd state. With the collector's marks of J.K. Brönner's gift to the Städel museum, duplicates were sold in 1874 (marks Lugt 307 and 2396). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the borderline; a few tiny tears and pinholes along the margins affecting the image.
= Meder/ Hollstein 137; Schoch 198; Bartsch 28. An early 17th cent. copy by Johann Mommard, showing the shoe with only one strap. With the collector's mark of Albert van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).
= Comprises i.a. The Virgin and Child on a Grassy Bench (Meder 31), Saint Anthony reading (Meder 51), Knight, Death, and the Devil (Meder 74) and Landscape with a cannon (Meder 96). All w. stamp by Armand-Durand (Lugt 2934) or Reichsdruckerei Berlin (Lugt 4925) on verso.
- A good/ fine copy printed on thin paper. Trimmed just outside the borderline; trifle whitish in upper corners from former tipping in w. paper (paper still present on verso).
= Hollstein 7, the only state.
- Cut ±1-1,5 cm. outside the platemark; sm. brown spot in lower right corner and in right margin.
= Robert-Dumesnil 166; Le Blanc 166, II.
= Showing people on skates and on (horsedrawn) sledges. Inside a couple smoking and drinking coffee near a crackling fire. Part of a series of the four seasons.
= Plates from G.L.L. DE BUFFON, Insectes, Coléoptères (4to).
= Hollstein 5, only state. With the collector's marks of H.F. de la Motte-Fouquet (Lugt 778) and Albert van Loock (Lugt 3751) on verso.
- All (sl.) agetoned; portrait of Lumley w. waterstain in right part.
= All from the series Portraits of Members of the Kit Kat Club (in total 47 portraits), all by Faber after George Kneller.
= Comprising i.a. "Lophius Vespertilio", "Raia Oxyrinchus", "Cottus Quadricornis", "Gymnotus Electricus" and "Blennius Ocelllaris". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
- Vague oblique fold; trifle foxed.
= Very rare engraving possibly from the publication or one of its reprints. On the work: Hunt 343; Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341.
ADDED: Nagis Regnault, Genevieve de (1746-1810). "Le Pas d'Asne ou Tussilage." Contemp. handcol. engraving, 38x25 cm., engr. title in 6 languages below.
- All plates mould spots (in varying degrees) in upper blank margin and (sl.) foxed. Five plates badly waterstained (affecting the image).
= 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. (...)".
= No.29 of the series of Prosopographia (...) (43 in total). New Hollstein 346.
AND 5 others from the same series.
= New Hollstein 195, 3rd state of 3. Probably a later impression on greenish paper. From the series of the Acts of the Apostles, part of a print bible.
Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1586-1652) (workshop). Peter heals the sick with his shadow. Engraving after Philips GALLE after Maarten VAN HEEMSKERCK, 21,2x26,7 cm. (platemark).
= New Hollstein (Galle) 195, copy a. Interesting copy after the first print.
AND 10 others, all from the same series Acts of the Apostles, all by PHILIPS GALLE, prob. all from a later printed printbible.
- Sm. brown stain near centre, otherwise fine. = New Hollstein Dutch 247.
AND 3 others by the same, i.a. the nymph Largia.
= New Hollstein 357 (1st state, before the number), 361 (2nd state of 2) and 398 (3rd state). All with later manuscript caption in pen and ink below.
- Very wide margins w. some sm. brown/ foxed spots. = New Hollstein 249, 2nd state of 2.
AND 2 others by Hendrick GOLTZIUS: St Matthias and St. Paul (both cut a few mm. outside the borderline. New Hollstein 47 and 48).
- 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.
- Paper in lower blank margin and 1 tear in the text restored; a few sm. (closed) marginal tears along other margins; flattened middle and horizontal fold. Nevertheless a good print.
= A magnificent rare panoramic view of the city of Bethlehem. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.