5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Impression on paper with Amsterdam coat of arms watermark, narrow margins; lower left corner cut short, just touching the image; w. annots. in pencil on verso.
= Hollstein 17, 3rd state of 5, w. the address of P. Pot.
AND 3 other landscapes, by J. VAN ALMELOVEEN (2x) and M. MERIAN.
- No."2" soiled and w. sm. closed tear near upper margin, on laid paper w. foolscap watermark; no."3" w. soiled and stained ample margins, on 17th cent. laid paper; no "4" w. sm. hole in the sky, on laid paper w. foolscap watermark.
= Hollstein 18-21, the 4th/ 5th/ 6th state (of 6).
AND 2 other copies of no. 3 (poor copy) and 4 (later impression).
- Tipped onto mount w. glue stains shining through.
= Both with the manuscript collector's mark of the artist J.B. Corneille (1649-1695) (Lugt 4939) on recto. Bartsch 159.
- Tipped onto mount; a few sm. vague browned spots in image; upper outer margin browned (just affecting image).
= Le Blanc 31. Nice skating scene.
Wagner, J. (18th cent.). "Divertissements de paysans Hollandois". Engraving after D. TENIERS, 24,5x32,6 cm., engr. caption, publ. etc. below image (tipped onto mount). - AND 3 others (1x after D. TENIERS and 2x after A. VAN OSTADE).
- Neatly rebacked w. thin Japanese; tiny foxed spots/ vague soiling.
- Waterstained; (closed) holes in centre; repaired corner.
= Not found. Perhaps an illustration. A devotional print with Dutch captions in the image and French below the image, spoken by a nun or another female monastic. Showing Christ in the Garden of Getsameneh and 3 other scenes from the Passion, all set in the garden.
= Probably proofs by a goldsmith.
- Brown spot on the face of the woman; paper remnants from former mount on verso along upper and left edge.
= Perhaps a depiction of Bacchus as infant. Not found. With the collector's mark of C. Draut (not in Lugt) on verso.
- Tipped onto mount. Upper margin cut off w. loss of image; dam. spots/ holes due to ink corrosion.
= Part of the collector's stamp of the Allicance des Arts in lower margin (Lugt 61). WIth attrib. to Guiseppe Cesari (1568-1640) on mount.
= Probably an early state before any lettering. Artist unidentified. On laid paper with watermark showing a ring of circles. With an unidentified collector's mark "CD" (not in Lugt).
- Good impression w. small margins.
= Hollstein 1-10; De Groot/ Vorstman 110-115; cat. Het rijk van Neptunus 33 a-c; Ackley 207-208. The 3rd and final state, without the number.
AND an etching in reverse after R. NOOMS: "Een Schietschuyt. Een Vlotschuÿt".
- Doubled; margins cut sl. short; sm. repaired tear at lower margin; a few (sm.) stains, twice in image; some fingersoiling/ duststaining.
= The caricaturesque print ridicules the attempt of Abbé Miolan and Janinet to ascend in a hot air balloon on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Abbé Miollan and Janinet, respectively depicted as a cat and an ass, walk away as the fire is being fought. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
- Doubled w. Japanese, closing some sm. holes; sm. (ink?) stain in image.
- Sl. soiled and browned in lower right corner. = Wurzbach 8.
Bega, C. (1620-1664). The mother seated in an inn. Etching, 1664, 15,3x11,9 cm.
- Platemark traced with pen and ink; (finger)soiled. = Hollstein 31, 2nd state (of 2).
AND 1 other by A. VAN OSTADE: Peasant with crooked back (Hollstein 20, 5th or 6th state of 6).
- Lacks plate 7; lower outer blank corner of 4 prints sl. thin/ worn; all prints w. vague central fold strengthened on verso (sl. yellowed on recto) and trifle foxed in blank margin recto. Otherwise fine.
= Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Vague brown spot in blank margin of print. Otherwise fine.
= F.M. 4637: "Spotprent op de teekenaars van het [Anti-dotaal request]" (1785); Atlas van Stolk 4588.
"Op den professoraalen krygsman." Etching, 25,8x13,6 cm., with letterpress explanation below, ±1785.
= F.M. 4673 (chapter "Spotprenten op Le Sage ten Broek te Rotterdam", 1785): "(...) half als militair, half als predikant gekleed. Op den achtergrond een tuin waarin een huis en kleine Oranjeboom waaraan een varken knaagt. Op den achtergrond de: Catechismus en Privilegie."
AND 4 others, incl. 3 caricatural engravings: "Afbeelding van een Kees, Weegluis, Avijoenvreeter, Amokspoeger, of Heedendaagsche Patriot" (engr. w. letterpress caption below. F.M. 4555); "De gewapende Kees" (handcol. engraving w. letterpress caption and verses below. F.M. 4866) and (Begraafenis van eenen dooden zalm (nl. den Rijksgraaf von Salm) (engraving. Without the text and sl. dam./ cut short. F.M. 4928).
- Sl foxed.
= F.M. suppl. 4904A (1787): "Een man met een pauwenstaartpruik op het hoofd, een vossenhuid op den schouder, het werk van Machiavel om den hals, en boeijen en jukken in de zakken van zijn kleed, staat op een aardbol, en schiet bliksems uit op de Post van den Nederrhijn en andere patriotsche geschriften."
"Eere-prent ter gedachtenisse voor de inwoonders van gantsch Nederlandt over het geven hunner liberale giften van de 50. penning. Ten diensten van den landen, in het jaar 1747." Broadside, 50x37 cm., letterpress text in 2 columns below an allegorical engraving (29x36,5 cm.) by J. SMIT, Amst., S. van Esveldt, 1747, framed.
- Old folds; browned. = F.M. 3915.
"Staat-en Regeering-kundigen Boom Schetzende de Algemeene Staat en Regeeringsvorm der Vereenigde Nederlanden." Large allegorical engraving by J. SCHUTSZ after A. RESINGER, 44x32,5 cm., w. the address of J. Kok, n.d. (1787), framed.
- Sl. creased/ foxed. = F.M. 4756.
AND 1 other.
- Without the separately printed letterpress Verklaaring called for by Muller.
= F.M. 4756: "Een groote boom met 7 wortels (De Provinciën) staat op eene kaart van de Nederlanden; de stam duidt de Algemeene Staaten, de takken de verschillende Collegiën aan. (...) De Patriottische geest van deeze schets der Regeeringsvorm blijkt daaruit dat het Stadhouderschap bovenaan een der uiteinden van den boom is geplaatst, afhankelijk van den Souverein, de Staten." The 4-line verse in lower margin reads: "Tracht Batoos edel kroost! tracht dezen Boom te kennen/ En zo ge ontaarding ziet in Wortel, Tak of Vrucht;/ Spoor vlijtig de oorzaak na, en zoek hem zo te wennen/ Dat hij door Eendracht bloeije in uwe vrije lucht!"