5323 - 5647 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Small closed tear in in upper edge, just affecting the image.
= Very rare, with very rare address. The engraving is a reduced copy of the print used in C. Allard, Nieuwe Hollandsche Scheepsbouw (1st ed. 1695). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- Cut on the borderline along upper margin; sm. hole in centre upper part.
= F.M. 2357. Impressive large view of the battle near Lobith.
AND an engraving by I. SORIOUS showing fortifications in the same area: "Gedenk-teykenen, der wonderlyke geschiedenissen, voorgevallen in de Vereende Nederlanden, in't jaar, MDCLXXII" (F.M. 2349).
- All with binding holes in the left margin, probably from an album. Otherwise fine.
= Wurzbach 6; Hollstein, after Molyn 11.
- Small closed tear in sky area; vertical central fold (practically invisible on recto); mounting paper strip in top margin on verso.
= Hollstein, Stoopendael 21, not mentioning this state: without address or artist's names below; Hollstein, De Laer 10, under title: The limekiln under the Tiber-Island in Rome.
Berchem, Nicolaas (1620-1683). The set of various animals. Two etchings of the series of 8 etchings (incl. title), both ±10x11 cm.
= Hollstein 52 and 54 the 7th and final state.
AND 4 others, various sizes, i.a. ANONYMOUS (2nd half 17th cent.), "1ere Vue d'Italie" (engr. view, engr. caption below. 21,5x28,3 cm. Vague oblique folds; outer lower blank corner sl. browned).
- Trifle stained and fingersoiled; numb. "72" - "85" in pen and ink in upper left blank corrner.
= The New Hollstein 138-151, 2nd state (of 2). Fine series of musicians. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Ample margins.
= Part of the series Hunting parties. First print: New Hollstein (P. Galle), 546, 4th state of 4; 2nd print: New Hollstein (Stradanus) 520, 3rd state of 3. Probably from the edition of 1634.
= Hollstein 98, 3rd state (of 5).
Velde II, Jan van de (1593-1641). Chapel near a pond. Etching from the series Eighteen Landscapes and Ruins, 11,7x30,8 cm., numb. "7" in the plate in lower right corner.
- Cut just outside the borderline; upper left corner reattached.
= Hollstein 184, the 2nd state (of 2, no copy known of the first state).
AND 1 other landscape etching by Hermanus VAN BRUSSEL (1763-1815) (Sliggers 4).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 87, 3rd state (of 4).
Idem. Jeux des boules near the city gate. Etching from a series of Landscapes (12 plates), 17,7x27,8 cm., "Herman van Swanevelt Inventor fecit cum privilegio Regis" and w. the address "à Paris chez Mondhare" below the image.
= Hollstein 96, 4th state (of 4), 18th century impression, with ample margins.
- Hollstein 7 cut to the borderline, lacks the address, number and title of the series below; all other prints cut just/ a few mm. outside the borderline.
= Hollstein 107-112, 1st and only state.
Molijn, Pieter de (1595-1663). Woman with a basket and a boy standing near a peasant seated. Etching from the Set of landscapes with figures (four plates), 15,1x18,5 cm., "4" engr. in lower right corner.
- Later impression on wove paper.
= De Groot, Landscape 86; Freedberg p.38-39 ("the last of the great Haarlem pioneers"); Hollstein 3, 3rd state (of 3).
AND a printdrawing by Cornelis PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, Het oordeel van Salomo (LNP 34, 6th and final state; Van H. 73) and one after Philips WOUWERMAN.
- Central vertical fold strengthened on verso and trifle darkened on recto. Fine copy.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
= Hollstein 27, 2nd state of 2.
AND 4 other similar by the same: Landscape with a man carrying a staff (H.20, 2nd state of 2); Landscape with a brook (H.22, 3rd state of 3); Landscape with two boys, each with a staff (H.26, 2nd state of 2) and Landscape with a boy and a woman carrying a jar (H.28, 2nd state of 2, with the two figures changed into putti, used as book-illustration).
= Hollstein 170, the second state (of 2); F.M. 1509.
- All in fine condition.
= Three prints from the set of Landscapes and Ruins (20 prints in total). Hollstein 209-211.
- Upper margin cut just inside/ on the borderline; old middle-fold (w. at the top a small chip); a few foxed spots.
= Hollstein 193.
AND 3 others: engraving after Jan VAN GOYEN by Jan DE VISSCHER, an allegorical engraving with James I as a King (without the letterpress text, early 17th cent.) and an etching by Antonio TEMPESTA (The lighthouse of Alexandria).