- Sm. (paint?) smudge in blank part.
= Identification of the view (by the artist?) on verso. Showing the Temple of Minerva (?) in the foreground and the skyline of Rome in the far distance.
- Some sl. foxing.
- A few sm. repaired tears in upper blank margin; sm. ink smudge in upper margin; vague brown stain in right part, num. sm. brown specks in margins and on verso.
- Some (vague) foxing.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Signature sl. faded (due to ink?); numb. "630" in contemp. hand on verso. = A fine river view.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
= M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, Nicolaas Wicart. Landschapstekenaar en porseleinschilder (2003), p.26. Verso w. printed owner's ticket of A.J. v.d. Poest Clement, Amsterdam, w. ms. annot. "Uit Auctie Frederik Muller & Co, te Amsterdam, 29 Nov: 1893. Catalogus No.863" and w. the orig. catalogue cllipping tipped on.
- Sl. yellowed.
= M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, Nicolaas Wicart. Landschapstekenaar en porseleinschilder (2003), p.105.
- Yellowed; restored/ closed tears in lower right corner.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Very vague unobtrusive waterstain near left edge; otherwise fine.
= Very rare drawing by the famous Dutch architect. Provenance: the estate of the architect and then the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- Cut just outside/ inside the borderline. Partly waterst. (especially upper half); some small tears, especially upper margin.
- Small hole in upper left blank corner; some foxing; verso traces of former mounting in corners. Copy with rounded corners (especially lower left corner).
= Verso w. collector's mark (partly visible) and "319" in pen and red ink. Hollstein 41.
- Browned and soiled; tipped onto mount.
= Extremely rare, no other copies traced by us of this engraving. In 1537 monogrammist FG engraved the same composition but mirrored (cf. Nagler Monogrammisten, 2914, no.8), after which the present engraving was almost certainly copied. Nagler identifies FG as a German artist; our copy is possibly also from the German School. The composition is based on a design for a large series of tapestries "Giochi di Putti", commissioned by pope Leo X (for the Sala di Constantino in the Vatican) in Brussels around 1521. According to Vasari the designs are originally by Giovanni da Udine, leaving it unclear to what extent the designs of the series were based on a conception by Raphael (who died in 1520). The supervision of the project in Brussels, in the tapestry atelier of Van Aelst, lay in the hands of Tomasao Vincidor, who had been part of Raphaels workshop together with Giovanni da Udine. The tapestries and the cartoons are lost, but drawings of Vincidor have survived, including the drawing on which this composition was based (now in The British Museum).
- Dam. sectrion in right margin and small dam. spot upper in right corner; closed tears; a few tiny stains.
= Very rare, unrecorded portrait. On laid paper with unicorn watermark (probably Germany, ±1550). With the collector's stamp of A.P. van den Briel on verso (Lugt 407a). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Tiny repairs in upper margin; trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark.
= Slightly resembling the style of Hans Bol. Probably by a Flemish artist.