5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Lacks title-p. and 9 portraits; first portrait partly sl. crudely handcol.; one portrait w. closed tear; sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding stained.
= A rare series of portraits of the delegates participating in the negociations for the Peace of Westphalia. Van Someren 186.
= Copy in reverse of the portrait by Kilian. Not in Hollstein. Rare.
AND 12 other small engraved portraits by the same, mostly high nobility, i.a. Charles de Valois, Claire Marie van Nassau-Siegen, pope Gregorius XV, king Charles I of England.
- Fine. = Robert-Dumesnil 25.
AND 2 others, i.a. a portrait of the artist Sebastien Bourdon (engraving by H. RIGAUD, foxed).
- Trifle foxed.
= Very rare and curious print with three portraits of Martin Luther and one of Frederick II of Saxony, representing four stages of his life (as monk, his exile at Warburg, as reformed preacher and at his death). Each portrait with German caption below. This monogrammist not in Nagler. Perhaps by Jacques Granthomme but not really his style (Granthomme was active in Frankfurt in 1597). With the collector's mark of Friedrich II August of Saxony (Lugt 972). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
= Hollstein 23. From the series of 72 portraits of artists: Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies.
AND an etched view by W. HOLLAR (new margins).
- On paper w. grapes watermark. Vague oblique crease; one corner carefully restored (unobtrusive) and another sl. thin; a few specks.
= Hollstein 125; F.M. 5439c.
Dyck, A. van (1599-1641) (after). (Portrait of Peter Symons). Engraving, 26,8x19,2 cm., "Jacobus de Man" in the plate in lower right corner below the image.
- Sl. foxed in blank margins; image trifle foxed; two sm. closed tears in lower blank margin.
= Hollstein (Van Dyck) 171, 2nd state of 4. With the collector's stamp of L.A. de Vries on verso (not in Lugt).
AND 2 other portraits: Johan Philip de Monté (by M. SALLIETH after Schmidt) and the mayor of Leyden, Peter Adrianus van der Werff by P. PHILIPPE.
= Hollstein, 77-116, the engr. title in 1st state (of 3), the portraits in either 2nd state (of 3) or 3rd state (of 4) (i.e. the plates finished but before the signature).
- Foxed in blank margins.
Houbraken, J. (1698-1780). "Cornelis Troost Konst Schilder; Gebooren te Amsteldam den 8 October 1697. Overleeden den 8 Maart 1750". Engraving, 36x27 cm., the portrait of C. Troost on an easel, surrounded by painter's attributes, "C. Troost pinxit", "J. Houbraken fecit" and "te Amsterdam by P. Fouquet junior" below the image.
= F.M. 5472; cf. Niemeijer 3S.
AND 17 engr. portraits (mainly) of Dutch officials, i.a. by C. TROOST, J.E. MARCUS, J. HOUBRAKEN, P. VELYN and after D. GHIRLANDAIO.
- Occas. w. defects; mostly fine.
= I.a. portraits of Magdalena Moons, Mary of Burgundy, Mary Princess of Great Britain, Anne de la Vigne, Sophia Margareta, H. Boerhaave, Anne Boleyn, Marie Flückigger and Queen Victoria of Engeland.
- Some w. sm. defects. = Portraits of i.a. Willem I, Willem Frederik Karel and princess Sophie.
= Prints by i.a. C. van Noorde, A. van der Haer, J. Heenck, P. Janson, J.C. Janson, J.E. Marcus, P. de Mare, B. Martini, G. Saint, A. Schouman, J. Snellen, R. Sondag, H. Spilman, N. van der Worm, J. Cootwijk, H. van Brussel, H. Busserus and E.W. Bagelaar. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Lacks one plate "35" and without letterpress title and 2 dedication leaves; all lvs. sl. fingersoiled and yellowed; plate "1" to "4" w. waterstain in inner margin. Outer corners and spine rubbed/ sl. worn.
= This copy was awarded to the artist Hendrik Voogd (1766-1839) by the Amsterdam Stadstekenacademie in 1783 with a manuscript prize in pen an ink "Tertium praemium H: Voogt" on the frontispiece, signed by the administrators of the academy, i.a. by J. BUIJS and C. PLOOS VAN AMSTEL. Cf. C.J. de Bruyn Kops, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 21 (1970), p. 322 (general article on Voogd). Portalis-Béraldi, III, p. 360. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- On thick laid paper; ample margins.
= Bartsch 9; Le Blanc 4; Delaborde 4, 2nd state. With the collectors marks of J.F. Bianchi (Lugt 3761), d'Arenberg (Lugt 567) and Comte C. W. de Renesse-Breidbach (1776-1833) (Lugt 1209).
- Fine copy. Tipped onto board mount along margins w. paper tape (easily to detach). = Very rare.
AND 2 other marine engravings (1x handcol.).
- Trimmed ±1mm outside the platemark; vague glue remnants of former mount along edge on verso. Fine copy.
= On thick (18th cent.?) laid paper. New Hollstein 45, 2nd state of 3, before the re-biting by the Basan workshop, but with the horizontal scratch between figures, common in the later impressions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Trimmed just outside the borderline. Fine, strong dark impression on late 17th/ early 18th cent. laid paper, no watermark.
= New Hollstein 302, 4th state (of 5), before the restoration of the shadow on the wall between Christ and the woman. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Trimmed a few mm. outside the platemark; sl. agetoned.
= With the manuscript collector's mark of Nathaniel Smith (±1740-after 1800) (Lugt 2296 and 2298). New Hollstein 196, 2nd state (of 3). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.