- Laid down; sl. browned and dustsoiled.
= Probably Dutch or Flemish school. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Some thin/ restored spots. Trifle foxed/ dustsoiled.
= Attributed on mount to GERARD HOET (1648-1733).
- Folded; some dam. spots; fingersoiled; partly closed tear.
AND 1 other drawing, (Cornucopia), prob. by the same.
- Slightly frayed.
= All with guirlandes and allegorical elements and with captions: "Negotie"; "Navigatie"; "Vreede en Vrijheid" and "Vrijheid, Eendragt, Vrede, Getrouheid".
- Formerly folded. w. fold strengthened and repaired on verso; a few sm. stains; sm. hole in right part.
= On laid paper with watermark showing a fleur-de-lis and the monogram GB.
AND 12 other drawings, mostly views/ landscapes.
- Probably doubled w. Japanese.
= Delicate drawing in 17th century style. Provenance: the collection Jan Severijnse and later A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.
- Laid down on board; several closed tears in margins.
= Copy in reverse after the painting by Gerard Seghers, probably based on the print by S.A. BOLSWERT after the painting.
- On rather thick laid paper, no watermark discerned; foxed/ duststained.
= Sold in 1936 by the antiquarian Charles Férault (Paris) as a genuine Paulus Potter drawing. With Férault's collector's mark in lower right corner on recto (Lugt 2793A) and with the original receipt signed by Férault and reading i.a. "Un petit dessin par Paul Potter; "Taureau couché" and "Dessin garenti du Maître, Ecole Hollandaise du XVIIème siècle". Verso drawing reading "Potter, Paulus, schol [sic] Néd." in pencil.
- Two lower corners repaired w. later paper; doubled w. very thin paper; soiled; rubbed/ sl. worn along edges, w. various sm. repairs, closed holes and sm. tears.
= On laid paper with the watermark of papermakers "J. Honig en Zoonen" (active between 1765-1836).
- Sl. offsetting from former passepartout in margins. Otherwise fine.
= Provenance: coll. John C. Schaller, of San Jose, California sold by Christie Manson & Woods, December, 1978. On laid paper with Pro Patria watermark.
- Vague vertical fold.
AND 2 similar anonymous watercolours, unif. framed with the above.
- Nice, sl. naive watercolours.
= Attractive, sl. naive view of Baden Castle (in Argeu?).
- A few spots.
= On wove paper. Unidentified collector's mark on recto (flowers) not in Lugt. And the manuscript collector's mark of Kaye Dowland (Lugt 691), dated 1867, wrongly attributing this drawing to Willem van de Velde.
= The largest ship appears to show the flag of the British East India company. On thick laid paper.
= Probably a Dutch amateur artist.
Anonymous (18th cent). (Boy offering two birds to a girl carrying a small cage). Watercolour, 17x20 cm. - AND 14 others, mostly 19th cent., i.a. two sketch leaves w. small scenes of students "Promotiepartij", a small drawing showing a butterfly in three different positions and a large winter scene ('Koek en zopie') in 17th century style by Anna Maria THURET (dated 1821).
- Tipped onto mount along left margin.
= View from the "Bloemendaalsche weg" with the dome of Buitenplaats de Beek showing.
AND 1 pen and black ink and watercolur drawing by Petrus Josephus LUTGERS.