5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Sl. foxed. = One of the 5 known etchings by the artist.
AND 1 other by the same: (Landscape with a woodgatherer walking towards a farm below the ruin on the hill). - ADDED: an 18th cent. etching showing an Italianate landscape with a ruin and an arched gate, monogrammed "PT".
- Doubled and sl. soiled. = Hollstein 11.
Mellan, C. (1598-1688). (Figure of ? leaning on a pedestal surrounded by books). Engraving, 18,5x23 cm., signed "C. Mellan G. in. et f" in the plate. - AND 8 other etchings and engravings, 18th/ 19th century, i.a. J. DEAN, The Cobbler (mezzotint, 40,5x31,5 cm.; dam.).
- Verso num. tiny foxed spots, occas. shining through.
= Hollstein 131. Nice print of February, in which people celebrate carnival by over-indulgence, frost-fairs etc.
- Outer blank margins frayed, creased and darkened.
= Hollstein 24, 2nd or 5th state (of 5).
- First leaf w. mould stains in upper part title print; large repair in right corner; soiled/ stained in lower margin.
= Hollstein 50, 51, 57, 58 and 60, all final state.
- Mounted; lacks lower outer corners.
AND 5 others, i.a. 4 lithogr. hunting scenes after P.P. RUBENS.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
AND 10 others, prob. all after D. TENIERS II (3x without his name), all fine, i.a. "Les Mendiants" (engr. by JOURD'HEUIL, 23,6x27,4 cm.); "l'Operation inutile" (engr. by ?, 20,2x14,2 cm.); "Le plaisir des vieillards" (engr. by F. BASAN, 25x17,5 cm.); "Le menage octogenaire" (engr. by J. BEAUVARLET, 20,8x23,8 cm.); "Le desjeuner Flamands" (engr. by J. TARDIEU THE YOUNGER, 21,8x26,8 cm.) and "La bonne intelligence" (engr. by J. BEAUVARLET, 18x25 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
AND 4 others after D. TENIERS II: "Le medecin empyrique" (engr. by J. TARDIEU, 26x31 cm.); "Le premier Hameau de Flandre" (engr. by J. LE VEAU, 28x36,2 cm. Sl. foxed, mainly in blank margins); "Le deuxième Hameau de Flandre" (engr. by F. BASAN, 28,3x36,3 cm.) and "Jeu de Mail Flamand" (engr. by L. SURUGUE, 25,3x33,8 cm.).
- Upper and lower margins cut off but; sm. closed tear in upper right corner; not examined outside of frame.
= De Vesme 60, 2nd state.
= Rare printed ephemera, perhaps for visitors as a souvenir commemorating the canonization in 1610. The arch is embellished with statues of other canonized archbishops ("effigies sanctorum archiepiscorum mediolani"), each identified in letterpress below. A larger version of this print by Mattheus Greuter is known, but this version by Tozzi not traced.
- Foxed. = PROOF, without the engr. captions. Niemeijer 684T.
- Old folds; w. closer tear in left part.
= Hollstein, Danckerts 117; Hollstein, Nolpe 55; Muller 185; F.M. 1756; Scheepers I, 440; cat. Tulipomania Frans Halsmuseum 28. From the reprint of De drie t'Zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt, over de op- en ondergang van Flora (...) (orig. publ. Amst., 1643), reprinted during the period of high prices for hyacinths (1734). Krelage, Bloemenspeculatie in Nederland p.153: "In 1734 vreesde men zóó zeer een herhaling van den tulpenwindhandel dat een herdruk verscheen (...)." Rare.
- Ample margins. Sl. foxed (prob. washed?); tipped onto mount.
= Hollstein 34, the 2nd state (of 2), with the address of Franc vanden Wijngaerde in upper right corner. From a series of 4 Wide landscapes. Rare.
- All but one w. ample margins, all on 17th cent. laid paper. = Le Blanc 53-61; Nagler 5 (series).
= Nagler 168.
AND 4 others by the same, i.a. 2 (of 7) etchings from the series the Good Samaritan (Nagler 55), Cain killing Abel (Nagler 1) and A Bacchanal with Fauns and Nymphs (Nagler 130 or 131).
- Sl. soiled.
AND ±70 other miscell prints, various techniques (i.a. engravings) and sizes (between 14,5x9 cm. and 29x17 cm.)
- Sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins). = Hollstein 145, 2nd state (of 2), with the number added.
- Sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins).
= Hollstein 146, 2nd state (of 2), with the number added. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.