- Foxed in caption strip.
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) (after). "Marie de Medicis sous la forme de Minerve Déesse des Arts." Etching by Jean Baptiste Massé, from the same series, 49,3x33,5 cm., w. engr. address below image, Paris, Sr. Duchange, dated "1708" in lower right corner below image and w. numb. "4" in lower right corner.
- Two tears in right margin of image; a few black crayon[?] scratches in image.
AND 2 others, i.a. Pierre PICAULT, "Il est un Dieu de se vaincre soy mesme" (etching after Ch. LE BRUN, 40x53 cm. Sl. yellowed).
- Contemp. annots. in pen and ink in upper and lower margin; brown stain in right part. = Hollstein 130, 3rd state of 3.
AND 5 others with biblical scenes, i.a. by Jan WIERIX and Hans COLLAERT.
- Somewhat browned; trimmed 1/ 2 mm outside the platemark. = Hollstein 281.
- Probably a later impression on thick paper; soiled, mostly along upper edge.
AND 4 other prints with planetary theme.
= Hollstein 133 (copy). From the series of Solomon's Song.
= The following saints-hermits: Symacchus (no.7, H.442); Lucius (no.8, Hollstein 443); Dorotheus (no.9, by R. Sadeler, H.148); Auxentius (no.13, H.445); Vinvalocius (no.14, by R. Sadeler, H.151).
- Two prints soiled.
= The following saints: Euthimius and Theoctistus (no.6, by R. Sadeler, Hollstein 135); Quiriacus (no.9, by R. Sadeler, H.120); Helias (no.14, H.391); Origen (no.18, H.395); Eulogius (no.16, H.393); Piamon (no.28, H.405).
= Fulgentius (no.5, by J. Sadeler, Hollstein 411); Arsenius (no.12, H.123); Martinianus of Caesarea (no.16, H. 126); Simeon of Trier (no.23, by J. Sadeler, H. 419); William of Aquitaine (no.27, H. 131); Saint Nicolas of Flüe (no.29, by J. Sadeler, H.422).
= The following hermit saints: Antiochus (no.3, Hollstein 425); Palamonis and Pachomius (no.4, by R. Sadeler, H. 134); Johannicius (no.5, H.426); Gudwald of Wales (no.9, H. 428); Jodocus of Ponthieu (no.10, by R. Sadeler, H.137); Theodor Stratelates (no.14, H.431); Patroclus (no.17, by R. Sadeler, H.140) and Venerius of Tino (no.21, by R. Sadeler, H.142).
- Ample margins; fingersoiled in right blank margin and corners.
= All with Dutch late16th/ early 17th cent. manuscript captions in pen and brown ink above, i.a. "Elias whordt gespijst door een raaf".
- Closed tear in right margin and 4 cm. within the image. On verso 17th century (prob. German) annotations and small sketches in pen and ink.
= Plate 6 (of 13) of the series Salus generis humani (Salvation of Mankind), 1590. The emblematic borders are after illuminations of a missal made by Hoefnagel for the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II. Rare.
- All w. extended border; partly w. glue stains shining through along edges.
= Saints Bonifatius, Utho, Marinus and Theclanus, Lupus, Hartmannus, Aegil, Aurelia, Adelindis Antistata, Waltho, Emericus, Maximilianus. Eberhardt, Margretha van Antiochia, Pirminius, Erentrude, Florianus, Lucius, Petrus, Sebaldus, Sturmio, Maximus, Valentinus.
- Browned. = Hollstein 90, the 2nd state (of 2), with the number "2" in lower right corner.
- Somewhat foxed; cut ±1 mm outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 20. First print from the series of 5 Landscapes. Rare.
= F.M. 1804: "Zeer fraaije prent".
- Left margin strengthened on verso w. strip of paper and vaguely waterstained; upper margin extended.
= F.M. 457.
AND ±75 miscellaneous other portraits and commemorative scenes, early 18th cent. - late 19th cent., various sizes and techniques, i.a. 20 leaves w. num. engr. portrait medallions, mostly w. opposite leaf w. explanation explanatory note to the medallions (all from J. LECLERC, Histoire des Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas, publ. Amst., 1728); REMBRANDT, Portrait of Jan Six (helio-engr., late 19th cent.); ANONYMOUS (mid 19th cent.), "J.F. Blumenbach" (engr. portrait. Yellowed) and Claude MELLAN, (Portrait of an unidentified man) (oval engr. w. coat of arms engr. below portrait, signed "C. Mellan G. del. et f." in lower left corner. Trimmed to the border; before letters).
= From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
= Rare, not traced. Perhaps by Jonas Umbach. With the collector's mark of J.F. Bianchi (Lugt 3761).
- (Vaguely) waterst. = Not in Hollstein.
AND 5 17th cent. bookillustrations, i.a. by Adriaan van der VENNE and Otto van VEEN.