5323 - 5647 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Hollstein 13 w. 2 small closed tears in lower margin, otherwise minor/ tiny imperfections. Fine copies.
= Hollstein 12, 13 and 15, all first state of 3. All with wide margins. All with the collection stamp of Boymans van Beuningen (Lugt 288 and Lugt 700a (stamp indicating duplicates)).
- Sl. agetoned.
= Hollstein 18, 3rd state of 3. On 17th century laid paper with watermark showing a fleur-de-lis in shield. Title-print/ first print of a series of 4 pastoral landscapes.
Visscher, Cornelis (1629-1658). The seated old herd. Etching after Nicolaas BERCHEM, 18,5x26 cm. (borderline).
- Sl. soiled.
= Hollstein 67, 2nd state of 2. From a series of 4 oblong pastoral landscapes after Nicolaas Berchem.
AND 5 other etchings after/ in the style of Nicolaas BERCHEM, i.a. by Johannes VISSCHER.
- Partly sl. yellowed and vaguely waterstained.
= Nice etching in the style of Fragonard.
= Delteil 28; Reed/ Shapiro 50 (printed in 1919 by Vollard, the fifth and final state: copy from the cancelled plate).
- Some foxing in blank margins. = Delteil 43, the third state of four.
- The second print lacks upper left blank corner. Otherwise fine.
AND 5 other etchings by the same, all portraits (identified in pencil on verso or recto): Camille Desboutin (1st state of 3; vaguely signed and dated in the plate. Sl. foxed; pinhole in left blank margin); Octave Feuillet; Pius X; De Collin (SIGNED(?) in pencil; foxed) and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (sl. foxed).
- Repaired copy, mostly along central fold; sm. closed tear in lower margin, ±1 cm. within the image.
= Robert-Dumesnil, peintre graveur, p.130, no.7, 1st state of 2 (before the address), laid paper with watermark showing a crown with a star above within a circle.
AND 3 facsimile prints after the same, incl. the above.
- Fine impression w. good margins.
= Hollstein 23, interesting state between the 2nd and 3rd state, the plate reduced in height from 15,5 cm. to 13,8 cm.; Hollstein lists as 3rd state the plate reduced to 12,7 cm.
AND 3 other small etchings of animals by the same and attrib. to Pieter van LAER.
- Partly sl. foxed. Binding sl. worn.
- Cut inside the image (normal size 12,8x9,8 cm.). Fine, dark impression. = Meder 148.
- Small piece of lower left corner torn off; sl. yellowed; some small wrinkles.
= Probably an 18th cent. impression. Cf. Bartsch, Hollstein 117; Meder 218.
- Brown offsetting in blank margins from passepartout.
= Modern impression of New Hollstein 4, 6th state of 6.
- With some additions of names in the print (up to the early 19th cent.) in pen and ink; trifle creased.
= Impressive and decorative print listing all monarchies and monarchs from the Assyrian Monarchy up to the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
= i.a. from U. MEGERLE, De Gekheydt der Wereldt, 1737 (Landwehr, Emblem Books 5; Klaversma/ Hannema 25) and J. CATS, Alle de Wercken, 1712 (Cats STCN 8; Mus. Catsianum 6). Including some duplicates (in reverse).
= From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
- Foxed (mostly affecting blank margins). = Hédiard 142.
- Sl. foxed.