6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Trimmed to the platemark; sm. marginal tear in lower margin; sl. foxed.
= Hollstein 112, 2nd state of 2. On 17th cent. laid paper with monogram watermark "P...(?)". Part of the series of 6 Large Landscapes.
Idem. A traveller resting in a forest. Etching, 22x28,7 cm., "Antoni Waterloo fe." and "5" in the plate below the image
- Wide margins; trifle foxed.
= Hollstein 111, 4th state of 4 (Basan edition). Part of the series of 6 Large Landscapes.
AND 4 others, i.a. by the same: Two men at a gate (Hollstein 56, 2nd state of 3) and a small etching by GILLES VAN SCHEYNDEL after Gabriel PERELLE (title print of "Variae Regiones Inventae per Per.").
- Doubled, closed tears in right margin just touching the image; closed hole in left blank margin.
= Nice and rare view of a stranded sperm whale, with an inset view of the whale seen from the back. Ingalls 380; F.M. 4150; Atlas van Stolk 4136; Sliggers/ Wertheim p.92ff, i.a. on the legal argument that unfolded in the wake of the stranding of this sperm whale. Two groups claimed the ownership of the sperm whale, basing their argument on customary law at sea that dead whales were possession of those that staked the first claim. This specific whale was displaced from its original stranding place (where it had been claimed by the first group) by strong winds in combination with a flood and was then claimed by a second group of claimants. The bailiff in charge judged that right of salvage and not sea laws prevailed, which meant that neither of the two groups had any claiming rights and the proceeds of the sale had to go to the States of Holland. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Occas. foxed. = Levy 40.
AND 1 other lithograph by the same from The Studio, supplied in 6 copies: The Long Gallery, Louvre (partly foxed. Levy 83).
- Trimmed 5 mm outside the platemark; minor imperfections, fine copy.
= Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1892; Hollstein 2134, 2nd state.
- Right lower corner strengthened/ repaired; trimmed to/on the platemark on the right, all other margins trimmed a few mm outside the platemark; sl. grey/ weak impression.
= Rare. Mauquoy Hendrikx 1822; Hollstein 2119; Van Beresteyn 196.
- Old restored middle-fold and some small other restorations. = Hollstein 394.
- Trimmed to/ just outside the borderline, lower margin sl. cut short (Wierix name cut off); sl. yellowed and a few foxed spots; paper w. a few weak spots. Good/ strong impression.
= Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1556; New Hollstein 2000, only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIV.
- Sl. dustsoiled/ foxed. = On thick 18th cent. paper.
AND 2 engravings after Nicolaas BERCHEM (one print browned, the other sl. yellowed and vaguely foxed).
- Strong, dark impression; trimmed a few mm. outside the platemark. = New Hollstein 5, final state (of 2).
- Trifle grey impression w. small margins. Two brown spots in upper margin.
= Hollstein 3, the 2nd state (of 2).
Idem. The beggar eating grapes. Etching, 13x11,5 cm., monogrammed in upper left corner.
- Remnants of former tipping in on verso. = Hollstein 12. Good later impression.
AND 1 other by Johannes VAN VLIET.
- Some defects in outer margins, especially right blank corner (affecting captions).
AND 9 miscel. prints and drawings, i.a. "Vuë de Loo a Residence et Pallais Chaimpetre du Prince d'Oranie" (contemp. handcol. optical view. Browned; upper left corner repaired) and Francois TORTEBAT, "O nimium felix Isaac, aui ligna salutis (...)" (engr., mediocre copy).