- Trimmed on/ just outside the border line. = Hollstein 127, only state.
= Very fine and rare series of views. Hollstein 18. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Title-p. trifle foxed in upper margin. Otherwise very fine.
= Very rare set. Hollstein (Scherm) 34-49; Le Blanc 3. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
= Very rare set in very fine condition. No copy traced on the market. Not in Hollstein. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Formerly laid down on mount, w. paper remnants on verso; a few spots paper thin; sm. closed tear in lower edge; recto sl. soiled and unevenly yellowed.
= Very rare counterproof, cf. Bartsch 7. On laid paper with watermark showing a crowned eagle. With the manuscript collector's mark of Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716) (Lugt 2096) on recto in upper left corner.
AND 2 others.
- Two sm. pinholes in lower corners; formerly tipped onto mount, w. paper remnants in upper corners on verso.
= Not found. Perhaps part of the series of seasons represented by ladies in elegant contemporary clothes, engraved by Guilliam de Gheyn and published by Le Blond. Cf. the print representing summer in the Rijksmuseum by De Gheyn. With the collector's mark of J. Kerner (Lugt 1567b) and a seller's stamp ("Graf G."?).
AND 1 other.
= Prouté 44, 2nd state (of 2). On laid paper with a large crowned ornamental watermark showing "AM".
- Professionally doubled and with margins extended to unif. size for the purpose of fitting into a newly made binding. Fine and strong impressions.
= Hollstein 1-10; De Groot/ Vorstman 110-115; cat. Het rijk van Neptunus 33 a-c; Ackley 207-208. The 3rd and final state, with the name of the etcher and without the numbers on 7 etchings. According to Weigel (as quoted in Hollstein) only a few impressions with these numbers exist (the first state are pure, unfinished etchings). This set consisting of later impressions on paper (partly) with the watermark of the French lily and partly w. another watermark (illegible due to doubling). Famous series by Holland's leading marine painter, etched when he was 71 years old, as engraved ("out 71 Jaar") on the calligraphed title. Extremely rare in this complete state.
- Fine dark impression; trimmed just outside the platemark.
= Wurzbach 8. According to Wurzbach part of a suite of 9.
- Apart from some foxed spots both fine. = De Vesme 2130 and 2134.
- Both vaguely foxed.
- Cut 1 to 1,5 cm. outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 10, the fourth 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 (...)."
Anonymous (18th cent.). (Epitaph for Joannes van den Bergh and his wife Joanna van Teylingen in the Pieterskerk in Leyden). Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut, 29,5x17,2 cm., letterpress text, ±1757.
= Possibly by the artist Abraham Delfos. Rare example of a Dutch 18th century chiaroscuro print.
= F.M. 5096; Atlas Van Stolk 4980. Allegory of the Triple Alliance between Great Britain, Prussia and the Dutch Republic.
Eleutherophilos (= P.H.A.J. Strick van Linschoten). "Voor den weledelen gestrengen en manhaften heere Jan Jacob Elsevier, raad in de vroedschap en colonel van de schutterij der stad Rotterdam". Letterpress leaf, n.pl., n.publ., (±1785), 27x13 cm.
- Folded; sl. soiled.
ADDED: 1 engraving by ROMEYN DE HOOGHE, (Allegorie op de Unie van Utrecht).
- Spine-ends and corners trifle rubbed. Otherwise very fine.
= Provenance: "A. Perk Hilversum. 1840" (owner's entry in pen and ink (w. annot. on the presumed artist Gilray) on verso of first free endpaper). Atlas van Stolk 5346; F.M. 5431; Van Kuyk, Oude politieke spotprenten 499; Fuchs I, p.157. Curious and biting caricatures on the Batavian Revolution, ridiculing the various administrative bodies. The accomp. textleaves containing a bible-quotation in Dutch with English translation and an explicatory text in French. Van Kuyk, p.84: "Hollandia Regenerata, waarin een scherpe -men mag zeggen: een hoonende- critiek geleverd wordt op het revolutionnair bewind en speciaal op de verschillende comité's. De prenten zijn allergeestigst, overwegend onder sterken Engelschen invloed, in die mate zelfs dat zij langen tijd voor werk van Gillray gehouden zijn". Lonchamp 1468: "Recueil des plus caractéristiques et des meilleurs de l'époque." The artist David Hess served with the Swiss Guards in The Hague. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- All (sl.) foxed and under passepartout. = F.M. 5409. Rare complete series.
= Hollstein 30, 2nd state (of 2).
Idem. The singer. Etching, 11,1x7,3 cm.
- A (very) fine copy, trimmed on/ just outside the borderline.
= With collector's mark of P. van Doorne on verso (L.4731). Hollstein 27, the 2nd state (of 2), without the name.
- Upper blank right corner repaired; grey impression; cut 2 or 3 mm. outside the platemark.
= Pauli 42, 2nd state of 2.
- Upper left corner repaired, w. loss of "p" (of the word "praemium"); sl. soiled and w. a few spots.
= Pauli 130, 3rd or 4th state of 4. From the collection of J. W. Nahl (1803-1880) (Lugt 1954).
AND 1 other by the same: The Prodigal Son herds the swines (Foxed. Pauli 35) - ADDED: a metalcut leaf from an unidentified Book of Hours on vellum.
- Later grey impression on stiff paper; formerly tipped-in, w. remnants of mount in upper corners on verso.
= Pauli/ Hollstein 214, 3rd state of 3.