- Yellowed. = Van Wisselingh 261, 100 impressions.
AND 1 other etching by W.H. VAN DER NAT, also framed.
= Van Wisselingh 219, 100 impressions.
= Van Wisselingh 212, 100 impressions.
- Verso w. paper tape around sides. = Van Wisselingh 218, 100 impressions; Vervoorn 24.
= Van Wisselingh 130, 100 impressions.
= Van Wisselingh Supplement 292, 90 impressions. One of the last 8 etchings.
- Sl. stained; erased pencil annot. in lower rigt corner. Verso traces of former mounting along margins.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso; sold in auction Van Stockum, The Hague, ±1983. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Sl. foxed/ soiled; pinholes in outer corners.
Idem. (View of a farmhouse near The Hague). Drawing, black crayon and pencil, 22,7x30 cm., signed and dated "1904" in pen and ink in lower right corner.
- Vaguely foxed/ sl. browned;
= Identified in pencil on a leaf tipped onto mount together with the drawing.
= "(...) uitgegeven in een oplage van 60 genummerde en gesigneerde exemplaren op 9 januari 1996 en verspreid onder vrienden" [colophon].
- Mount sl. yellowed; sm. tear in upper blank margin.
Idem. (Composition with letters and rectangles). Collage w. mounted capital letters from a magazine and blue/black and red paper rectangles, 36,5x27 cm. (leaf), monogrammed and dated "85" in pencil in upper left corner and w. dedication "voor Niesje 87" in pen and ink in lower margin.
= All abstract compositions. First free endpaper monogrammed and "26 5 59" in pen and ink by the artist, upper pastedown with his autogr. address ("Siep vd Berg OZ Achterburgwal 156 Amsterdam" and lower pastedown w. autogr. annot. "een worsteling om vrij te komen. achteraf is alles eenvoudig", monogrammed "SvdB 74" in pen and ink; frontcover w. a printed ticket w. the artist's name, monogrammed and "59" in pen and ink.
- Binding (water)stained.
= All abstract compositions, a few w. annots. (for colours) and 1x w. a quotation(?) from "Tsjechow notities"; w 2 pages ms. text in a diff. hand, signed "Anne". First free endpaper monogrammed and "24 2 60" in pen and ink by the artist; frontcover w. a similar drawing in pen and ink. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- First few printed lvs. waterstained in upper corner; yellowed. Binding soiled/ sl. stained.
= All abstract compositions, incl. a few on (verso of) pages w. photographs. First free endpaper monogr. "SvdB 6 6 60"; frontcover w. a (sl. stained) abstract drawing. One leaf w. a ms. quotation from "Tsjechow brieven".
= All abstract compositions.
- Last free endpaper torn out. Wr. stained.
= All but one abstract compositions. Monogrammed and "Amsterdam 2'62" on first free endpaper; unrelated annots. on lower pastedown.
= Contains abstract compositions, portraits, female nudes and still-lifes, a few monogrammed and partly dated (1976 and 1978). With some tipped-in/ mounted newspaper clippings, occas. w. manuscr. commentary by the artist. Verso frontcover w. mounted plan of the centre of Amsterdam, w. the artist's owner's entry "Brouwersgr 113H / Siep v/d Berg" in pen and ink.
= All abstract compositions; the newspaper clippings often w. manuscr. comment by the artist and some occas. other annots. by the artist (i.a. "de eerste die de verf liet druipen was Picasso ±1937. Daarna meende elke schilder dit te moeten doen en de nieuwe wilden waren pas tevreden als alles droop. Het pleit voor de Constructieven dat ze zich niet van de wijs lieten brengen"). With a drawing in black ballpoint on htitle of a man holding a bottle on his head, with ms. text "14-1-89/ Siep pier is jarig", signed "Jan & Fatima". The frontcover w. (sl. soiled) collage by Siep van den Berg.