5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Sm. closed hole in centre; trimmed just outside the platemark; a few specks.
= Bartsch 75; Pauli/ Hollstein 77, 2nd or 3rd state (of 3).
Pencz, Georg (±1500-1550). Abraham bedient die drei Engel. Engraving, 5,3x8,6 cm., monogrammed in the plate.
- Cut just outside the platemark; sm. printing flaw in the face of Abraham.
= From the series of five Die Geschichte des Abraham; Hollstein 2.
- A very fine copy, trimmed just outside the borderline; traces of mounting tape along margins on verso.
= Pauli 147, 3rd state (of 3). With the collector's mark of Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (Lugt 2612), "Drugulin, très versé dans les estampes anciennes, a laissé quelques catalogues qui font preuve de sa grande expérience et de son zèle extrême. Ses ventes jouirent d'une réputation européenne." Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Slightly yellowed/ browned. = Cf. De Vesme 787-793.
AND 6 others, i.a. Gabriel PERELLE (1600-1675). (Christ and the twelve apostles) (etching, "Perelle Inv. et fecit." and "le Blond avec privilege. 2" engr. below image) and a later impression of an etching by Gillis VAN SCHEYNDEL (act. 1622-1654).
- All w. good margins.
= De Vesme 758, 760, 762 and 766 2nd state (of 2): with the numbers added.
= Perhaps proofs before the engr. titles below. = DeVesme 490ff.
- The first print (Haringpakkerstoren) trimmed just outside the platemark; the 2nd print with very wide (soiled) margins
= Part of the series of 8 Vues de ports de mer. De Vesme 798 and 799.
Scheyndel, Gilles van (act. 1622-1654). Two men climbing rocks up to ruins. Etching, 6,5x11,2 cm., "5" in the plate.
- Soiled.
= Rare. Part of a series of 12 landscapes. Hollstein 84. Below in the landscape a funeral procession appear to be on its way to church.
AND 6 others, i.a. a view by Jan VAN DE VELDE and a view of people near farmhouses in the style of/ by (?) Johannes GRONSVELD (not found) and an etching by Abraham BLOTELING after VAN OSTADE.
- Each w. (very) vague old manuscript no. in upper left corner; sl. foxed.
= Hollstein 29-34, the 5th state (of 6).
- Trimmed on the border line; slightly foxed; closed tear in left part touching the image.
= Hollstein 11, 3rd state (of 5), with number "4" in lower right corner. With the collector's mark of J.H. Jurriaanse on verso (Lugt 1403b).
AND 3 others similar by the same: The shepherd seated on a fountain and a spinner (Hollstein 8), The herd crossing the brook (Hollstein 9, with the same collector's mark) and The shepherdess on the donkey (Hollstein 12).
- Trimmed 5 mm outside the platemark; vague stain in lower right corner.
= Hollstein 11, 3rd state (of 5), with number "4" in lower right corner below image.
AND 12 others after Nicolaes BERCHEM, mostly by Johannes VISSCHER.
- Trifle browned mainly visible in blank margins; sl. frayed; image fine.
AND a unidentified lithograph.
- Incl. a few duplicates.
- Margins sl. soiled.
= Hollstein 6; Gelder and Jost 46, 3rd state of 3. From the series Paradigmate graphices variorum artificium. Seventeenth century impression.
AND 12 others, i.a. 4 by the same, from the same series and by François PERRIER and Cornelis VAN DALEN, all after classical statues.
- A few sm. closed tears just touching image; ink of annot. on verso visible on recto in lower margin outside the borderline.
= Hollstein 71.
AND 3 others, i.a. Jan VAN OSSENBEECK, Diana's revenge upon Niobe (etching after Nikolaus VAN HOY after Jacopo PALMA VECCHIO, 26,8x27 cm. Cut short in right margin; Hollstein 72).
- Both trimmed close to/ within the plate mark (one print just touching title in lower margin); both w. some handling creases.
= Hollstein 115 and 116, only state; Leonhardt sale Atlas of Amsterdam 62; Memorboek p.121-129 (repr. p.122). Two views depicting the Portuguese cemetery at Ouderkerk near Amsterdam. The Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam bought this site on the river Amstel in 1614. Barges were used to convey the coffins and mourners from Amsterdam to Ouderkerk until the 19th century, when carriages took their place.
- Yellowed; sm. brown stain in centre; sl. waterst. in blank margins; tiny tear in right margin.
= Hollstein 87, 2nd state (of 3). Rare.
AND 2 others by/ after Dancker DANCKERTS (doubled; dam. in lower right corner) and Paulus POTTER (trimmed on the border line).
- Left margin repaired/ restored; sl. soiled. = Hollstein 40.
AND 5 others, i.a. by Franciscus VAN STEEN after Teniers and smokers after Jan VAN VLIET and after Cornelis BLOEMAERT.
- Fine impression; trifle soiled in upper corners.
= On 17th cent. laid paper with watermark showing "HP" initial (probably a contra mark). Hollstein 3, the 2nd state (of 3); Ackley 96. On verso a manuscript collector's mark "Collection van Blokhuizen (?)" (not identified). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Sl. dustsoiled; cut on/ just outside the platemark; sl. agetoned/ foxed.
= Hollstein 382, 2nd state. (Very) rare portrait. With the collector's mark of the 19th century Swiss art dealers Falkheisen and Huber (Lugt 1008). According to an annotation on the mount, bought by "A.G." (?) in 1913 from the London printseller Herbert Breun.
- Trifle yellowed; vague vertical crease in centre.
= Hollstein 283, 2nd state (of 3) w. the address of A. Blooteling and "cum privilegio".