5700 - 6088 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Tiny piece of upper left corner repaired and redrawn; trifle foxed (more on verso).
= Rare. Bartsch 14, considers this print as a pendant to Schongauer's 'Foolish Virgin, half-length' (Hollstein 86). Bassenge auctioned another copy with the engraved address "Sk.exc." in 2021, not present on our copy, so this is perhaps an earlier state. With unread annotation in pencil on verso (collector's mark?). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
= Hollstein 85. With the collector's mark of J.F. Bianchi.
Huys, P. (1519-1584). The Flagellation. Engraving after P. VAN DER BORCHT, 11,5x7 cm., monogrammed "PH" and "PB" in the plate.
= Hollstein 7.
AND 2 other prints with Christian themes, i.a. the Pieta di Caprarola after A. CARRACCI (copy in reverse).
= Rare, not traced. Perhaps by Jonas Umbach. With the collector's mark of J.F. Bianchi (Lugt 3761).
- Oblique yellowish scratch; greyish impression; sm. ruststain.
= With cancel stamps on verso of i.a. Rijks prenten kabinet. Hollstein 26, only state, but numb. "6".
AND 2 other hunting scenes. - ADDED: 2 others (View of Alckmaer and View of Ruermonde, both from GUICCIARDINI, both laid down on board. Yellowed).
- Tear in lower blank and right blank margin.
= With the collector's stamp of Stanley C. Hauxhurst on verso (not in Lugt)
- Sl. dam. and w. tear in upper left blank corner.
- Some foxing; narrow margins.
= De Groot/ Vorstman 191-202, 2nd state (of 3). 1. "een Poon met een Paveljoen". 2. "een Kraak". 3. "een Keulenaar of Sammereurs." 4. "een Boeyer." 5. "een Heijnst." 6. "een Snik". 7. "een Turfschuit met een Emmerzeijl." 8. "een Schokker." 9. "een Beurtschip." 10. "een Friese praam." 11. "een Jacht met een bezaanzeijl." 12. "een Veerpont."
- Some foxing; narrow margins.
= 1. "Kraak aan de grond." 2. "Visschers Pinkje op 't strand." 3. "Garnaal of botvissertje aan de grond bezig met schoon maken." 4. "Zeeuws Beurtman zittende te banke of schoon te maken." 5. "Fregat aan de grond zijn stengen neer." 6. "Fregat dat leijt te kielen." 7. "Kof die leijt te Kielen." 8. "Kanonneer boot zeijlende bij de wind." 9. "Oorlogs-brik ten anker hangende zijn zeijlen te droogen." 10. "Oorlog schip met ligters of kameelen op zij." 11. "Oorlogs Fregat ten anker zijn groote steng neer." 12. "Brabandsch beurt-schip met een Paviljoen zeylende bij de wind."
= Part of a series of probably six naval views, from shipbuilding to wreckage.
"View of the Race Horse & Carcass (...) inclosed in the Ice (...) when prosecuting their Celebrated Expedition to the North Pole". Handcol. engraving by EASTGATE, 20,1x35,7cm., publ. A. Hogg, London, ±1780.
- Sl. duststained in the margins.
= Showing an episode of the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Amongst the crew of the Race Horse was Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and later famous abolitionist. The expedition resulted i.a. in the first scientific description of the polar bear.
AND 7 others, all views with ships, i.a. by S. VAN DER MEULEN, D. STOOPENDAAL and J. LUIKEN.
- Upper blank corners w. traces of sellotape; pinholes in blank corners.
Stradanus, J. (1523-1605) (after). Hare hunt. Engraving, 21,5x29,5 cm., numb. "7" in lower right corner and engr. captions below.
- Sl. yellowed; flattened middel-fold. = Cf. Hollstein 417 (but our copy without address).
AND 1 anonymous engraving "Non est hic aliud nisi domus (...)" (24x32 cm.) (margins partly laid down on mount w. glue shining through).
- Stained.
= From the series of 4 engravings showing Triumphal Processions of the Four Seasons. Hollstein 375.
- Sl./ trifle foxed; brown spot in lower margin.
= Hollstein 4, the 2nd state (of 2): "Formerly as by H. Goltzius (B. 297; Hollstein VIII, 430, as after Goltzius)." Filedt Kok, Hendrick Goltzius (Ned. Kunsthist. Jaarboek 41-42), p.184: "Several prints by De Jode after Spranger are accompanied by poems by Estius and were engraved in Goltzius' 'dough style'. Perhaps for these reasons, Bartsch attributed The Holy Family after Spranger, a print which must have been made in Goltzius' workshop, to Pieter de Jode." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
= All book illustrations from an unidentified work.
- Fine.
= On the artist as mezzotint engraver: "Vooral Jan Stolker bereikte er mooie resultaten mee." (Laurentius, Oude Prenten, p.61). Wurzbach 16.
- No.1-9, 11 and 12 all. w. ample margins, occas. w. spots, 1x w. waterstain; no.10 cut 1 or 2 mm outside the borderline.
= Hollstein 1-9 and 12, all final state (of 3, 4 or 5); no.10 3rd state of 4, before the number; no.11, 3rd state of 4.
- Ample margins; tiny closed tears in margins; vague brown spot in centre near upper edge.
= On 17th century laid paper with watermark "Catinaud". Hollstein 5, 4th state of 8. With a curious stamp of "Hotel Victoria Coblenz am Rhein" on verso (collector's mark?).
- Sl. grey impression. = Hollstein 87, 3rd state (of 4).
Idem. House on a rock. Etching from a series of 12 Landscapes, 17,3x27,3 cm., w. engr. address of Mondhare below image.
- Ample margins; sl. foxed.
= Hollstein 98, 4th state (of 5). With partial collector's mark "No.", unidentified.
Idem. The Mountain. Etching, 31x24 cm.
- Fingersoiled and creased in corners; vague stain near upper right corner.
= Hollstein 100, 5th state (of 5), the address of Bonnard erased (vaguely still visible). From the series of 4 vertical Landscapes.
AND 3 others by the same: A group of trees (Hollstein 102, 4th state of 4); Venus lamenting over Adonis's death (Hollstein 23, 3rd state of 3); The Two Horsemen (Hollstein 105, 4th state of 4).