6089 - 6356 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
= Design for a medaillon. An engraving of this subject was made by B. Picart in 1730, after the drawing of 1715 [this drawing?].
- A few (partly closed) tears in right margin; sm. portion of upper right corner lacking and upper right corner sl. creased; sl. duststained in lower right corner.
= On paper with fleur-de-lys watermark.
- Newly stretched and laid down on canvas.
- Yellowed.
- Upper edge laid down on mount. = Cf. New Hollstein 309.
- Traces of former passepartout in margins (affecting image).
ADDED an engraving "Le Frilleux" by J.-C. LE VASSEUR after D. TENIERS.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- Several holes in centre; tear in left part; paper occas. brittle.
= With the collector's mark of W.A. Freund (Lugt 954) near lower edge.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
- Yellowed; fold in lower left corner. = Parody on Rowlandson's original caricature.
- Laid down; somewhat foxed; some brown offsetting along edges.
= Sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam in 2005 (lot 102). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Lower left corner restored (not affecting signature) and sl. waterstained in upper left margin.
- Title supplied on mount and on verso drawing.
= Spectacular drawing showing the explosion of Van Speyk's ship in the harbour of Antwerp on 5 February 1831. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.