- One print lacks portion in upper blank margin.
- Top w. a few vague waterstains.
- Cut just outside/ inside the borderline. Partly waterst. (especially upper half); some small tears, especially in upper margin.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark. = New Hollstein 32, 1st state of 2.
Idem (after). Dancing couple. Engraving, 11,7x7,8 cm., monogrammed and "1538" in the plate.
- Upper right corner repaired (lacks the number).
= New Hollstein 164, copy a (Hollstein mentions smaller dimensions).
- Trimmed on/ just within the platemark; fingersoiled; a few weak spots (caused by the removal from a mount), 1x w. a tiny hole near centre of right edge; sm. tear in centre left edge; rubbed spot in lower right corner. A strong impression.
= Bartsch/ New Hollstein 177.
- Sl. dustsoiled.
= Rare. From the series Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature (...) dans les environs de Rome et de Naples. Only a few prints are known by this female artist.
- Vertical printing flaw in centre of the image. Otherwise fine. = Probably illustrating the virtue of Caritas.
- Mounted; glue along the edges of the print coloured to light pink.
= Rare, not found. Detailed etching with delicate lines.
= Possibly by the artist Abraham Delfos. Rare example of a Dutch 18th century chiaroscuro print.
- Vaguely waterst.; a few sm. wormholes.
AND 2 other drawings, a landscape and a portrait.
= The caption reads: "En vain ces petits polissons / Vous font des tours de cent façons. / Pauvre Maitre ! de l'indulgence! / On n'en peut trop avoir pour gouverner l'enfance."
Anonymous (19th cent.) "Le Colin Maillard." Etching w. aquatint after David WILKIE, 4-line caption below image, 22,5x29 cm., Paris, Dopter, ±1850.
= The caption reads: "Puisquw je n'attrappe personne, Dit à part lui gros Gaillard, Il faut au moins que je tatonne, En jouant au Colin-Maillard."
AND 13 others, incl. 4 Basan editions of engravings after Gillis VAN TILBURG, Adriaen BROUWER and H. FRAGONARD (2x), and incl. an anonymous drawing of Aeneas carrying his father on his flight from burning Troy (sanguine crayon, 51,5x35 cm., 18th cent. Laid down and folded twice).
- Lacks the title and several prints; sl. foxed and fingersoiled; final print creased and doubled; one large (water)stain affecting 4 prints. Spine-ends sl. dam.; corners bumped.
= Fowler/ Baer 193; Millard 118; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2466. The so called Petit Marot, "(...) the earliest of the great series of volumes illustrating French architecture which appeared in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries" (Millard), found with a varying number of engravings (up to 122). Jean Marot was a practicing architect with the title of Architect des bâtiments du roi. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Both engravings are cut from leaves with 2 of these engravings each.
= Very rare. These prints are part of a series of similar prints, after the series Raccolta di Diverse Caricature (Rome, 1687) by Arnold van Westerhout.
Etching from the series of 10 Seascapes with views of the IJ and Amsterdam (...), 17x23,5 cm., signed [below image] "L. Bakhuizen fec: et exc" and [in the image in reverse] monogrammed and "1701" in the plate, framed.
- Good impression. = Hollstein 10, 3rd state of 3.
The Set of Seascapes with views of the IJ and Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Katwijk, etc.
Five (of 10) etchings from the series, 3x w. modern handcolouring, 1701, each ±17x23 cm., on various kinds of 18th cent. laid paper.
- Occas. trifle yellowed (in blank margins); otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 1, 2, 6, 7 and 9, the 3rd state (of 3). The first etching without the six line verse by Backhuizen, printed from a separate plate. Famous and very rare etchings by Holland's leading marine painter, etched when he was at the age of 71.
= Hollstein 3, 3rd state of 3 and Hollstein 9, 2nd/ 3rd state of 3; cf. De Groot/ Vorstman 110-115; cat. Het rijk van Neptunus 33 a-c; Ackley 207-208. Both with the collector's marks of K.F.F. von Nagler (1770-1846) (Lugt 2529); S. Scheikevitch (1842-1908) (Lugt 2264); Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Lugt 1606) and 'Tilgungsstempel' of the same institute (Lugt 5615).
- 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. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.