5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Trimmed just outside the border line; sm. portion of blank lower left corner restored.
= Hollstein 18, only state.
AND 1 other similar by the same, from the same series: (Italianate landscape with the resting couple) (Hollstein 15).
- Wide margins, sl. foxed. = Hollstein 10, 1st state of 3.
AND 8 other similar views, by Abraham GENOELS, A. MEYERING and Adriaen BOUDEWIJNS.
- Partly waterst. in blank margins/ partly foxed.
- Yellowed and a few vague foxed spots.
= Lieure 558, the first and only state. Verso w. an unidentified collector's stamp (not in Lugt).
Idem. Le gueux appuyé sur un bâton. Etching, from the series Les gueux, 14x9 cm.
- Yellowed. = Lieure 497, first state of 2.
- The engr. captions cut off; trimmed on the border line. = Lieure 77, one of 5 states.
AND 1 other engraving of Christ surrounded by apostles by Jan Lauwryn KRAFFT.
-Trimmed just outside/ on the platemark/ borderline; upper margin cut short just within the image; soiled.
= Lieure 264, 1st state (of 2).
AND a landscape etching by Stefano DELLA BELLA on velin paper.
- Slightly grey impression w. thread margins on contemp. paper.
= Lieure 264, 2nd state (of 2). Verso w. collector's stamp of Thomas Graf (not in Lugt) and manuscript entry of "G. Storck à Milano 1799".
AND 3 small etchings by the same, i.a. from Les misères de la guerre (Lieure 1333 and 1336, both 2nd state (of 2)).
- Apart from some foxed spots both fine. = De Vesme 2130 and 2134.
AND 2 others, both 18th/ 19th cent.(?) impressions of Italian engravings i.a. by Marcantonio RAIMONDI.
- Without the letterpress explanatory booklet called for by Muller; folded once and foxed.
= F.M. 4361: "Een folio blad waarop in 5 rijen onder elkaar, de 15 verkleinde copien staan, in verschillende groote (...) van 15 zeer lelijke en flauwe zinneprenten in 1778 en 1780 hier verschenen over onze politieke verhouding en betrekking tot Engeland en America, doch vooral over de Gewapende Neutraliteit. (...) Zoowel de plaat als de uitlegging komen zelden voor." The plate showing 15 reduced caricature plates on the League of Armed Neutrality and the Dutch position with regard to the American Revolution and Great Britain.
ADDED: "Wat Marie het Dienstmeisje in de zakken van den Student vond!" Amst., "Oporto Bar", n.d. (±1903), printed col. trompe l'oeil, 21,1x32 cm., recto only.
- Some sl. foxing. Formerly folded; partly splitting on folds (strengthened on verso). = Rare.
AND 3 slightly naïve late 19th/ early 20th cent. watercolours of a military man in various poses.
= F.M. 2327. Caricature of Christoph Bernard von Galen ("Bommen Berend"), bishop of Munster and king Charles II of England. Part of a series of 6 similar prints, showing stadtholder Willem III of Orange-Nassau and his opponents during the Disaster Year (Rampjaar) of 1672. When the portrait is turned upside down, a swine/ tiger is visible. Rare. In the style of/ by(?) Romeyn de Hooghe. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
= Double-page plate from La Lune Rousse, year 2, no.89, Aug. 1898.
- Heavily foxed, especially margins.
WITH printed on verso: Idem. "A March to the Bank" (42,5x55 cm., numb. "25". Heavily foxed).
- Partly trimmed to the borderline; partly dust-/ waterstained. Sold as a collection of prints not subject to return.
= Atlas van Stolk 5346; F.M. 5431; Van Kuyk, Oude politieke spotprenten 499; Fuchs I, p.157. Curious and biting caricatures on the Batavian Revolution, ridiculing the various administrative bodies. Van Kuyk, p.84: "Hollandia Regenerata, waarin een scherpe - men mag zeggen: een hoonende- critiek geleverd wordt op het revolutionnair bewind en speciaal op de verschillende comité's. De prenten zijn allergeestigst, overwegend onder sterken Engelschen invloed, in die mate zelfs dat zij langen tijd voor werk van Gillray gehouden zijn". Lonchamp 1468: "Recueil des plus caractéristiques et des meilleurs de l'époque." The artist David Hess served with the Swiss Guards in The Hague. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
WITH 9 duplicates (with the same defects as the above). - AND 2 other caricatural lithographs after D. HESS.
- Sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins).
- Cut just inside the lower margin of the platemark.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the platemark; tipped onto mount.
= Rare print formerly attributed to Wenzel Hollar, who was Carter's teacher. New Hollstein (Hollar) 251; Pennington: 2579: only state. Probably from J. Ogilby, The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (London: 1654).
- Trimmed just outside/ on the platemark. = Bartsch 41; Bellini 32. Part of the series Small Oriental Heads.
