6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Occas. sl. grey impressions; a few leaves restored w. Japanese or paper strip along outer or upper margin; a few leaves sl. browned in upper/ lower margin. Very fine copy.
= A fine collection of Hogenberg's Geschichtsblätter, rarely found thus complete. The series contains 2 extra unnumb. plates and 1 extra (unnumb.) portrait. The plate numbering skips one plate (no.184). F.M. 413: "Prentwerk (...) over de gebeurtenissen in Nederland, Frankrijk, Duitschland, enz., van 1558-1610, ook over het jaar 1535, en eenige platen over 1611-1632; te zamen 375 à 400 platen (...) Iedere plaat met een 12- of 16 reg. Duitsch vers (...). Dit uiterst belangrijke en vrij zeldzame werk is voor de kennis der Nederl. geschiedenis van groot gewigt, daar het ten tijde der gebeurtenissen zelve vervaardigd en uitgegeven is. (...) de meeste Exemplaren bevatten 375 à 400 platen; doch al die verschillende platen bijeengenomen wordt het een getal van 482, die zeker nooit bijeen te vinden zijn, en waarvan vele slechts in 1 of 2 Exemplaren werden gevonden. (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CXVII.
= Showing the events during the Dutch Revolt in the southern and northern Netherlands: the siege of Steenwijk, the battle near Aumale and The fall of Kinsale to the English in 1602.
= With engr. caption below the portrait reading "Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundi Effigiem annorduorum et sex-aginta, sui erga ipsum studii causa depingi curabat Franc. Hog. M.D.LXXIV." New Hollstein 36, 3rd state (of 4): "frontispiece in: Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabulae geographice (...) per Gerardum Mercatorem Cosmographum."
AND a small print of "De Compasse-maaker" (handcol. engr. by J. LUYKEN, framed).
- Small closed split on the plate mark near lower left corner.
= New Hollstein 1034, 3rd state (of 4). The letterpress Dutch commentary reads: "De Toorn van Antwerpen is in alle deelen een wonderlijk werk van het menschelijk vernuft, ende een groot gedenkteken van oude magt en Rijkdom, op het werk is in den jare 1518, het kruys geset."
- Horizontal fold in centre, strengthened on verso; ample margins.
= New Hollstein 1034, 2nd state of 4. Parthey/ Pennington 824.
- Some foxing in upper part. = Pennington 598.
- Vague vertical fold in left part; trimmed just outside the borderline.
= Originally the frontispiece of T. SPRAT, The History of the Royal Society of London (1667). New Hollstein 1966 and Pennington 459.
- Some creases in (ample) blank margins; image fine. = New Hollstein 7.
- Trimmed to plate mark (right margin)/ borderline (left margin); remnants of sellotape in (blank) margins; fold in upper left corner.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe the Etcher p.152, 2nd state (of 2), with "R. de Hooge fec" in lower right corner; F.M. 2751a. Decorative print, the larger central image showing King James II being welcomed in France by King Louis XIV after his flight from England in the Glorious Revolution, surrounded by images of the hazardous flight. At the top is a portrait of King James, flanked by belligerent women fighting off the Crown ("No Monarchy") and the Catholic Church ("No Popery").
= Together they form the decorative border showing the title, coats of arms and patents.
- Formerly folded (as published); browned; laid down on mount along edges; neatly closed tear near upper border in the image.
= Landwehr, R.d.H. the Etcher 147, II; F.M. 2713b; Atlas van Stolk 2742; cf. Hollstein 142. Fine historical print of Willem III setting sail on a military expedition against James II of England, to prevent an alliance of this Roman Catholic king with Louis XIV of France against the Dutch Republic. Depicted are the departure from Brielle and the arrival at Brixham.
- Browned; formely folded. Otherwise fine.
= Copy in reverse. Rare. Cf. Landwehr, R.d.H. the Etcher p.55; F.M. 2256; Atlas v. Stolk 2358. On the famous raid of Chatham by Michiel de Ruyter and his fleet.
= Rare caricature on the Siege of Groningen and the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-1678. F.M. 2536-2
- Wide margins, well outside the platemark; somewhat grey impression.
= Rare. Hollstein 134, 1st state (before the number) of 2. On 16th century laid paper with watermark showing a crowned "M" topped with a cloverleaf (found i.a. in a leaf of a manuscript dated 1540, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar, Q 40 Bl. 1). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
= Hollstein 2, 2nd state of 2; Bartsch 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- One etching foxed, the rest occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; one etching dampstained; one etching w. two closed tears in the lower margin, not affecting image.
= Siltzer, The Story of British Sporting Prints p.62. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVII.
ADDED: 1 other.
- Sl. foxed in sky area. = Rare and attractive print, showing a chariot race at full speed.