5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Browned; partly mounted; doubled or on thick paper (?); cut just outside the borderline.
= New Hollstein 163, 3rd state of 5. Frontispiece for the series of the Roman emperors.
Idem. Calliope. Engraving, 24,5x16,3 cm., numb. "1", "Ao.1592", "HGoltzius invent. et sculptor" and "HeG fecit" in the plate.
- Ample margins; agetoned. = New Hollstein 129, 4th state of 5.
AND 1 other after the same: copy in reverse of Susanna and the Elders (1599, by Philippe Thomassin, New Hollstein 392, copy e, 2nd state of 3. Heavily browned).
- Ample margins, cut a few mm. outside the rectangular plate mark; agetoned and sl. brown offsetting from a former passepartout; formerly tipped-on, w. glue remnants along right edge on verso; on verso a tiny pencil (collector's?) mark.
= The print appears to have a double platemark, a larger rectangular and an oval. New Hollstein 215, 4th or 5th state (?). A vanitas portrait.
- Each cut on/ just inside the borderline; all agetoned; all w. foxing (in various degrees); 10x mounted and 2x tipped onto mount; no.2 (Garden of Getsamene) lacks portions in upper left corner.
= Hollstein 17-29.
- Wide margins, cut rectangular ±0,5 to 3 cm. outside the oval platemark; foxed; somewhat grey impression.
= Left part of two companion pieces, showing a man and a woman (possibly husband and wife), both printed from silver medallions. New Hollstein 276.
- Fine, cut a few mm. outside the platemark.
= Very rare. From the collection Six (annot. on verso) and according to annotation on passepartout also Passavant and Godefroy. New Hollstein 206, recto of (silver) medallion. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
= New Hollstein 573, 1st state. From the series Ovid's metamorphoses, book III.
Idem. The Dispute between Jupiter and Juno. Engraving, 17,6x25,2 cm., w. the address of R. de Baudous.
= New Hollstein 577, 1st state of 2. From the same series.
AND 1 other from the series: Jupiter and Io (New Hollstein 547, 1st state).
- Good impressions, partly w. ample margins; all sl. agetoned and a few duststains.
= New Hollstein (after Goltzius), all 2nd state of 2: 543, 545, 549, 564 and 574.
- Foxed (only visible in blank margins).
= From the Caprichos series. Harris 74, III; Delteil 76, 2nd (final) state. Provenance: the collection of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck.
- Some offsetting from former passepartout.
= Strong impression with the aquatinted areas still dark. Delteil 83; Harris 81, from the first edition of the Caprichos series. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
= Harris 157.
= Before letters (Gazette des Beaux-Arts). Harris 26, III and Delteil 31, 2nd state (of 3).
- All w. trimmed margins, cut just outside the border line; 1x sl. foxed; 3x trifle/ sl. browned.
= Includes the title print of the series Landschaften und Köpfe.
AND 8 others similar by i.a. Therese HOLBEIN and C.W.E. DIETRICH.
- Ample margins.
= One of the favorite pupils of Boerhaave, van Swieten was appointed personal physician of empress Maria Theresia of Austria and transformed the Austrian health service and the medical education in the Austrian empire (i.a. in Vienna and Prague).
AND 14 other similar portraits by the same, mostly portraits of Austrian and German scholars (i.a. medicine or theology) and a few governors, i.a. the botanist Christoph Trew.{#}
- Lacks the engr. caption below; a few vague old folds. = Rare.
- First print dam. spots along the upper edge, w. sl. loss of the image; fifth print foxed.
= Hollstein 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9-11, 2nd/ 3rd state (of 5). The following collector's marks: No.4 Bernard Keller (1789-1870 (Lugt 384); No.5 Jules Gerbeau (Lugt 1165); No.7 Rijksprentenkabinet Leiden (doublet, Lugt 700b); no.10 Joannes Michiel Rysbrack (1693-1770) (Lugt 1912).
- Lacks title, 1 plate and the textlvs. Partly foxed, especially blank margins.
= Cohen p.479; De Backer/ Sommervogel I, 297.
AND 6 engravings by the same from Faits mémorables des Empereurs de la Chine.
- Sl. soiled; the first print on sl. thick paper. = Rare. Hollstein 1 and 2, 3rd state of 4.
AND 6 others with animals, i.a. by Johan LE DUCQ (two growling dogs), Dirk STOOP and Pieter BODDINGH VAN LAER.
- Cut just within the borderline (w. perhaps tiny loss of image); sl. soiled w. brown spot near centre.
= Second title print of the series of Insects, Fruits and flowers (Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii) (48 prints after Joris HOEFNAGEL). Hollstein 29.
= Showing the events during the Dutch Revolt in the southern and northern Netherlands: the siege of Steenwijk, the battle near Aumale and The fall of Kinsale to the English in 1602.
- Trimmed ±2 mm. outside the platemark. = New Hollstein 342, 1st state of 3.
AND 1 other by the same after Hans HOLBEIN.{#}