- A few foxed spots, one sl. worse; 3x trimmed outside the platemark, 1x trimmed to the image.
= According to Wurzbach part of a suite of 9. All 4 on 17th/ early 18th cent. laid paper. Wurzbach 1, 2, 3 ("Die rastende Herde am Venusbrunnen") and 8 ("Das Rendezvous zur Jagd"). With the collection marks of museum Boymans van Beuningen (Lugt 396b (bequest of H. M. Montauban van Swijndrecht (1841-1929)) and 700a (stamp indicating duplicates)).
- Surface dam. (silverfish), w. loss of image (1x with hole in blank margin). New margins.
= Hollstein 10, the fifth state (of 5). Mirror of everyday Life 71: "This is a case of realism taken to extremes and of a bylaw flouted, as any contemporary viewer of this print of an old woman emptying a chamberpot out of her window would have realised straight away. Those with a more erudite cast of mind might also have associated it with certain flights of poetic fancy from a distant past (...)."
- Flattened vertical fold. Without the accomp. text leaf.
= F.M. 4486: "Vuile spotprent op de prinsgezinden. Eene zaal, waar in het midden de Prins achter de deur staat en P. Wierdsma, een: Plan om Friesland onder 't juk te brengen aan de op den grond liggende en met vrouwenzadels bedekte heeren: van Hambroick en Col. Plettenberg aanbiedt.(...) Met gefingeerd adres te 's Hage bij P.F. Gosse, en de namen Went en H.W. Plettenberg als teekenaar en graveur. Zeer zeldzaam. Hierbij "Beknopte verklaaring" (...) zijnde slechts een verdere vinnige ontleding, doch geenszins eene verklaring der prent."
- Trifle foxed; a few sm. (closed) marginal tears. Otherwise fine. = F.M. 4798.
"D'Heer en Mr. Cornelis Goverd Visscher, Bevelhebber van het Burger-Vaandel Turkyen, de Vrijwillige ScherpSchutters ten dienste van der stad Utrecht, Gesneuveld, oud XXIII. Jaaren, III. Maanden. en XI Daagen". Engraved calligraphed text by L.J. FERRIER with inset view "D'actie is voorgevallen by Jutphaas", 29x36,5 cm., 1787.
= F.M. 4810.
"Het Nut der burgerbewapening". Engraving by A. HULK after P. COIJEN, w. engr. 2-column poem by J. VOORMAN below, 36x35 cm., n.pl., n.publ., 1785.
- Folded; sl. foxed in left and upper margin. = F.M. 4633.
"Aanval op de Duyvendrechtse brug (...)." Etching after J.D. TEISSIER by TH. KONING, 35x46 cm., engr. Dutch and French captions below, w. the address of D.M. Langeveld and "proefdruk", 1790.
= Atlas van Stolk 4813; F.M. 4963.
AND 10 others, incl. 2 stipple-engr. portraits of Isaac van Goudoever, "'t Genootschap, Pro Patria; zo als het zig vertoonde in de Nieuwe Kerk, te Amsterdam, bij het ontfangen der geschenken op den 11 Februarij, 1786."and "De vermeestering van Kattenburg, Op den 30 May 1787, door eenige Leden der Schutterij en van het Exercitie Genootschap (...)" (yellowed; vaguely waterst.).
- Fine. = Hollstein 28, 1st state of 2. On thick laid paper with ample margins.
AND 4 other etchings by the same: A woman smoking (Hollstein 11, 2nd state of 3); The Smoker (Hollstein 13, 1st state of 3); Seated man with his hat in his right hand (Hollstein 17, 1st state of 2) and The Group at the fireplace (Hollstein 23, 1st state of 2).
- Sl. foxed; trimmed just outside the platemark; somewhat grey impression, more towards the left side.
= Rare. Pauli/ Hollstein 25.
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; sl. grey impression; laid down on later paper.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 24; New Hollstein 24, prob. 3rd state. With the collection's mark of Fürstlich Waldburg Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542).
- Upper left corner w. sm. chip; sl. fingersoiled and some foxing; trimmed on/ just outside the image.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 86, 3rd state of 3.
- Fine, trimmed 1 mm outside the borderline. = Pauli/ Hollstein 34, 5th state of 5. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Duststained; sm. closed tear in the caption; sl. rubbed along the upper edge; vague waterstain in lower part; paper remnants of former passepartout on verso.
= On thick, probably late 17th/ 18th cent. laid paper. De Vesme 93, prob. 4th state of 4.
= Depicting cartouches/ ornaments (4x) and lions (margins sl. dam.).
- Upper margin frayed, a few sm. tears just within the image; sl. yellowed; central vertical fold strengthened on verso.
= The only known print by Cornelius van Bellekin, from JEAN LE CARPENTIER, L'Histoire généalogique des Pais-Bas ou Histoire du Cambray et du Cambresis (Leiden, 1664). It shows the states general of the prince-bishopry of Cambray in session. Van Bellekin is mostly known as a painter and engraver of mother-of-pearl.
- First and last blank yellowed from offsetting of wr.
= Extremely rare: only one other copy traced, at the auction of the collection M.Ch.van Hulthem, Ghent, 1846. From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Upper margin sl. cut short as often; a dark and strong impression.
= Hollstein 1, the 3rd state (of 5), with the address of N. Visscher. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- On laid paper w. partial foolscap watermark. Cut on/ just inside the platemark.
= Hollstein 11, 3rd state (of 5), with number "4" in lower right corner below image.
ADDED: 2 printdrawings, published by Ploos van Amstel, i.a. after Nicolaas Berchem.
- A few prints sl. yellowed and vaguely waterst.; occas. sl. frayed and w. some marginal tears.
= Nissen, IVB 301.
ADDED: 3 contemp. handcol. engravings of fruit by SELLIER (19th cent.).
= Nissen, IVB 145/ 301.
= Comprises i.a. Anthus Pratensis, Ampelis Garrulus, Tyto Alba Guttata, Riparia Riparia and Cypselus Apus.
ADDED 10 others, all prints of other animals, i.a. an engraving of cows by MARCUS DE BYE after PAULUS POTTER.