5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Apart from some foxed spots on verso, a very fine copy w. ample margins.
= Hollstein 46. With an inset miniature portrait of the sitter's wife Maria van den Corput in a medallion hanging from his shoulders.
AND 7 other portraits by the same, i.a. of HUGO DE GROOT (sm. closed tear; Hollstein 30, 3rd state of 4) and Felix a Sambix (Hollstein 78).
- Very small section near centre upper edge closed and filled in with pen. Otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 11; F.M. Portraits 1446.
- Upper left corner repaired; waterstain in lower corners, both not affecting the image; sl. browned and dustsoiled.
= Hollstein 62.
AND 1 other similar by the same after the same: portrait of Gaspar de Colligny III (Hollstein 21).
= Second cousins, who both besieged Louvain in 1635.
- Trimmed on the platemark. = New Hollstein 170, 1st state (of 2).
Idem. Johannes Stradanus. Engraving, 19,7x15,6 cm. (incl. the caption).
- Trimmed to/ on the borderline, caption cut trifle short; laid down on contemp. paper.
= New Hollstein 175, 1st state (of 2). Rare. From the series Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipuae germaniae inferioris effigies (1610). The title-print to the third part of the series.
Idem. Michiel Mierevelt./ Gerard Pietersz. Two etchings and engravings, 20,2x12,4 and 20,1x12 cm., 1610.
= New Hollstein 169 (2nd state (of 2)) and 173.
= The complete series, published in 3 parts, contains 72 portraits, 24 of which are engraved by Simon Frisius (see: N. Orenstein, Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland, p.73ff). Comprises: Abraham Bloemaert (New Hollstein 159), Joachim Bueckelaer (NH 160), Hendrick van Cleef (NH 161), Michiel Coxie (NH 162, sm. wormhole), Adam Elsheimer (NH 164), Maarten van Heemskerck (NH 166), Joris Hoefnagel (NH 167), Hans Holbein (NH 168), Michiel van Mierevelt (NH 169), Gillis Mostaert (NH 172), Gerrit Pietersz.(NH 173), Christian van den Queborne (NH 174), Johannes Stradanus (NH 175) and Joos van Winghe (NH 179).
AND 5 others, incl. 3 others from the same series: Cornelis Ketel (NH 111, by H. HONDIUS), Floris Claesz. van Dijck (NH 112 by HONDIUS) and Otto van Veen (attrib. to R. DE BAUDOUS, Hollstein 178 (Frisius)) and 2 portraits by S. FRISIUS from the series of Celebrated propagators of religion: Jacob Kimedoncius (NH 195, 1st state (of 2)) and Georg Mayr (NH 197, 1st state of 2).
- Partly duststained in blank margins; sl. creased in right blank margin.
AND 2 others, i.a. a portrait of "Jacobus Grooff" ("Bisschop van Canea") (foxed).
- Foxed in ample margins.
= Portrait of the famous Rotterdam orangist Kaat Mossel made during her imprisonment in The Hague. She was released in 1787. FM 4588.
= I.a. heads or state, nobility, church leaders and clergymen and scolars. I.a. Maximilian Wilibald, count of Wolsegg (by P. CLOUWET after A. van Hulle); Philip IV of Spain (by P. DE VILLAFRANCA), Albert and Isabella of Austria (by C. VAN SICHEM), Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz (by F. VAN DER STEEN after A. Bloem), bishop François de Gand-Villain (by P. VAN SCHUPPEN), Philip III of Spain (by R. ELSTRAKE), Johann Balthasar Ritter (by E. HAINZELMANN after J.H. Roos).
- Cut on/ to the borderline; a few specks; two tiny tears near upper edge; otherwise a fine copy.
= Robert-Dumesnil 186 II; Le Blanc 168; Petitjean/ Wickert 166 II. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
AND 1 other by the same: portrait of Charles-Emmanuel II of Savoy (Petitjean/ Wickert 204, probably 4th state of 5, unevenly browned (mostly in margins) and w. marginal defects).
- Sm. vague stain in left margin and lower margin.
Gole, J. (±1660-1737). "Anna Coninglyke Princesse van Denemark". Mezzotint, 25,5x18,7 cm. - AND 15 other portraits, 17th-19th cent., i.a. of Philippe, prince of Arenberg (by C. DE PASSE II); Adolf Vorst (by P. PONTIUS after G. PETRUS. With the collector's marks of Louis Galichon and Ambroise Firmin Didot); Niclas Tomelli; Nelly O'Brien (mezzotint by J. WATSON after J. REYNOLDS); Vincenzio Fanti (by P.A. PAZZI).
= Hollstein 387.
Edelinck, G. (1640-1707). "Carolus Mauritius Le tellier Archiep. Dux Remensia". Engraving after P. MIGNARD, 34,4x23,7 cm., on yellow tainted paper.
- Laid down on stiff paper.
Delff, W.J. (1580-1638). Michiel Mierevelt. Engraving, 23,5x18,7 cm.
= Hollstein 47, 6th state of 6.
AND ±50 other portraits, 17th-18th cent., i.a. a portrait of Gerard Vossius by C. DE PASSE, portraits by C. VAN SICHEM and a mezzotint portrait of Willem Deurhoff by P. SCHENK.
- Sl. soiled. = The number 66 is probably the date 1566. Rare contemporary portrait.
= I.a. of Nicolaas Beets, Heinrich Lang, Lodewijk Graaf van Nassau, Luther and Wilhelmus Brakel.
- Partly w. sm. defects.
= Incl. many English royalties, i.a. portraits of Thomas Cramer, Hendrik Hooft, William Russel and the Duke of Wellington.
- A few plates (sl.) waterstained; mostly frayed along (blank) margins; some foxing.
= Shown are i.a. Alexander Farnese, Bernhard von Lindenau, Nicolas I of Russia and Marie von Hannover.
= Incl. Dutch authors and politicians, such as J. van den Vondel, J. de Witt and A. van Zeebergh.
= For a large part combined portraits from later editions of Leven der schilders by Karel van Mander (1764). Also portraits from the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies by H. Hondius and S.W. Frisius. I.a. a portrait of J. VREDEMAN DE VRIES (by H. Hondius, 1604, New Hollstein 237); also portraits of Guido Reni, Adam Elsheimer, Abraham Bloemaert, Michiel Miereveld, Petrus de Jode, David Teniers and Francesco Paglia.
- Repair in left margin w. tape on verso; a few other minor imperfections. = Rare mezzotint portrait.