- Traces of former mount on verso; yellowed. = Hollstein 44, 1st state of 3: without "et exc."
AND 6 engr. portraits after C. VISSCHER and a 19th cent. lithogr. portrait of Willem I.
- Cut to the image; on thick paper. = Hollstein 49, the first and only state.
AND 3 others, i.a. a mezzotint portrait of king Philip IV of Spain by J. GOLE.
= Sliggers/ Van der Steur, Portretten van 100jarigen, portret c.
AND 3 others: engr. portraits of centenarian Jacob van Hoorn and his young wife Jacoba van Selstede and lithogr. portrait of centenarian Johanna de Smeth (from Haarlem).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 34, 2nd state of 2.
AND 3 similar portraits by the same of Johan Polyander van Kerckhoven, Eduard Poppius and Rombout Hoogerbeets.
= All portraits of men who played a part in the conflict between the Remonstrants and Counter-remonstrants.
- Ample margins. = Mauquoy-Hendrickx 12-A; New Hollstein 11-519.
AND ±30 other portraits, i.a. of Aegidius Verhelst (mezzotint by J.J. HAID, margins frayed and soiled), Gerard Honthorst (after A. VAN DYCK), St. Radegund (woodcut by L. BECK or H. BURGKMAIR), Caspar Schwenckfeldt (engraving by B. JENICHEN) and (sm.) portraits of Asian rulers/ dignitaries, i.a. "Cam-Hy emperor of China (...)" (engr. by M. VAN DER GUCHT, 1698), Reşid Mehmed pasha Kütahı (lithograph after G. BOGGI).
- Most (blank) corners strengthened on verso; occas. trifle browned/ foxed.
= Hollstein 345-374: state unidentified.
= Portraits of Menno Simons, Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, Joännes Hus, Jacobus Zonzalus and Donatus (laid down), Phlilip Melanchton, Nestorius, Thomas Muntzer (2 copies), Manes seu Manichaeus Corbicus, Macedonius, Girolamo Savonarola, Arrius Alexandrinus, Photius Iconoclasta and Paulus Samosatenus.
- Lacks title-p. and 9 portraits; first portrait partly sl. crudely handcol.; one portrait w. closed tear; sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding stained.
= A rare series of portraits of the delegates participating in the negociations for the Peace of Westphalia. Van Someren 186.
= Copy in reverse of the portrait by Kilian. Not in Hollstein. Rare.
AND 12 other small engraved portraits by the same, mostly high nobility, i.a. Charles de Valois, Claire Marie van Nassau-Siegen, pope Gregorius XV, king Charles I of England.
- Fine. = Robert-Dumesnil 25.
AND 2 others, i.a. a portrait of the artist Sebastien Bourdon (engraving by H. RIGAUD, foxed).
- Trifle foxed.
= Very rare and curious print with three portraits of Martin Luther and one of Frederick II of Saxony, representing four stages of his life (as monk, his exile at Warburg, as reformed preacher and at his death). Each portrait with German caption below. This monogrammist not in Nagler. Perhaps by Jacques Granthomme but not really his style (Granthomme was active in Frankfurt in 1597). With the collector's mark of Friedrich II August of Saxony (Lugt 972). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
= Hollstein 23. From the series of 72 portraits of artists: Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies.
AND an etched view by W. HOLLAR (new margins).
- On paper w. grapes watermark. Vague oblique crease; one corner carefully restored (unobtrusive) and another sl. thin; a few specks.
= Hollstein 125; F.M. 5439c.
Dyck, A. van (1599-1641) (after). (Portrait of Peter Symons). Engraving, 26,8x19,2 cm., "Jacobus de Man" in the plate in lower right corner below the image.
- Sl. foxed in blank margins; image trifle foxed; two sm. closed tears in lower blank margin.
= Hollstein (Van Dyck) 171, 2nd state of 4. With the collector's stamp of L.A. de Vries on verso (not in Lugt).
AND 2 other portraits: Johan Philip de Monté (by M. SALLIETH after Schmidt) and the mayor of Leyden, Peter Adrianus van der Werff by P. PHILIPPE.
= Hollstein, 77-116, the engr. title in 1st state (of 3), the portraits in either 2nd state (of 3) or 3rd state (of 4) (i.e. the plates finished but before the signature).
- Foxed in blank margins.
Houbraken, J. (1698-1780). "Cornelis Troost Konst Schilder; Gebooren te Amsteldam den 8 October 1697. Overleeden den 8 Maart 1750". Engraving, 36x27 cm., the portrait of C. Troost on an easel, surrounded by painter's attributes, "C. Troost pinxit", "J. Houbraken fecit" and "te Amsterdam by P. Fouquet junior" below the image.
= F.M. 5472; cf. Niemeijer 3S.
AND 17 engr. portraits (mainly) of Dutch officials, i.a. by C. TROOST, J.E. MARCUS, J. HOUBRAKEN, P. VELYN and after D. GHIRLANDAIO.
- Occas. w. defects; mostly fine.
= I.a. portraits of Magdalena Moons, Mary of Burgundy, Mary Princess of Great Britain, Anne de la Vigne, Sophia Margareta, H. Boerhaave, Anne Boleyn, Marie Flückigger and Queen Victoria of Engeland.
- Some w. sm. defects. = Portraits of i.a. Willem I, Willem Frederik Karel and princess Sophie.