- Four works w. sm. stains from glue shining through in upper blank corners.
= The 9 works, each ±29x21 cm., show various interpretations of the microscope (which is assembled in a compartment of the frame): (1) a realistic pencil sketch; (2) a rough pencil sketch of the shape; (3) a pencil sketch of a man smoking a cigarette in the shape of the microscope; (4) a more detailed sketch of the same man; (5) an original linocut plate of the man; (6) a second original linocut plate of the man; (7) a print in grey of the second linocut plate; (8) a print in black of the first linocut plate; (9) a finished print in black and grey of both linocut plates together. A remarkable work of art. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
= Originally published with poems by Thomas Braun (1897).
- Trifle creased and foxed in outer margins. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
- Trifle foxed in left margin.
- All drawings partly browned/ foxed.
- Yellowed.
- Lower blank edge folded.
- Sl. yellowed/ sl. dustsoiled; verso w. sellotape in upper margin, sl. shining through.
AND a watercolour of a woman feeding a baby, verso w. attrib. to L. SOONIUS.
- Vaguely irregularly yellowed/ sl. dustsoiled.
WITH on verso another landscape sketch by the same. - AND 1 other drawing.
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed; pinholes/ sl. rubbed spots in corners; sm. brownish stain in left margin.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
Idem. "Pont Royal". Drawing, pencil, 20,5x32 cm., signed "W. Minderman Juni '47" and titled in pencil, under passepartout. - AND 1 similar drawing ("5 Impasse Erainie Parys") by the same, signed etc. (foxed).
- Sl. yellowed; verso w. paper tape along upper and lower margin.
AND 2 similar drawings by the same of Veere (foxed) and of Thorn (laid down, foxed and w. traces of silverfish activity).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.