4947 - 5075 FINE ARTS - VARIA, COMMERCIAL ART, DEVOTIONALIA, PAPER, PICTURE POSTCARDS, POSTERS etc.
- Restored horizontal crack in Homer, small repair to Petrarca's nose, and closed vertical crack in serpentine slab (not affectng any of the profiles).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
= Contains cards by Van Houten's Cacao (i.a. sea straits, a family of ducks, mail coaches, various nests, hunting scenes, scenes in Russia, scenes from Justus van Maurik's novels, views in Dutch towns and villages, a series of fishes); Van Beekum's Kindermeel (i.a. Boer War); Grootes (Boxer Rebellion); Cibils (i.a. scenes from the life of Baron Von Münchhausen and Don Quixote); Hulstkamp (a series of expected and unexpected places where people drink Hulstkamp gin [jenever]); Bensdorp's Cacao en Chocolade (i.a. scenes in a school room); Maizena (famous American (military) men and scenes); Boldoot (series of means and scenes of travel in the Alps); R.J. Kahrel (extensive series of mail delivery throughout the world (37x)); E. Brandsma Thee (scenes showing the Romans in Germany and the Low countries). Also contains some chromolithogr. picture postcards.
- Folded once; sl. soiled. = Design for a small poster.
Idem. "Piver. Paris parfum". Drawing, pen and ink and gouache, 15,5x9,5 cm.
= Design for an label.
- Slighlty soiled; heavy craquelure lower and left margin; a few dents in the canvas.
- Paper sl. browned.
AND 1 other.
- One piece of metalwire loose.
= Mostly depicting saints, partly related to shooter's guilds.
- Sm. portion of upper bone rim chipped; restoration on side panel near hinge.
Snuff box, baleen, 2,8x9,7x4,3 cm., hinging lid w. inlaid silver vignette in the shape of a smoke puff of tobacco, ±1850. - AND 4 matchstick holders, 19th cent., 2x bone covered w. mother-of-pearl w. copper monogrammed shields. - ADDED: Coin balance scale box, mahogany, 3,5x7,8x17 cm., w. 5 brass weights, 18th cent. (lacks the scale and perhaps 3 very small weights).
- Creased; a few closed tears; sl. foxed.
= Very rare paper wrapper for "Utrechtsche Theekantjes (or Theerandjes)", a popular type of flavored and glazed cookies. "Zij zijn goed van smaak en nobel van Deeg, neemt ze voor de regte niet aan, Of daar moet den Dubbelden Arend van Pieter en Joost Edema zijn naam op staan; Gij hoeft ze niet te roemen of te prijzen, maar de smaak die zal het vonnis wijzen".
- Three sm. pieces of the engr. illustrations peeled/ peeling off. Otherwise fine.
= The illustrations show rural scenes, i.a. of herdsmen with cattle, a dancing couple under a tree, a bird, a grasshopper, flowers and butterfly. The purpose of this bell jar is not clear, but it might have been intended as cover for a glass of wine or for fruit and for keeping out insects and keeping drinks cool in summer.
- Blank margins duststained.
- Margins of paper frayed; paper yellowed. Silk embroidery in fine condition.
= Identical image on both sides. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.