5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Lower corner torn off (and restored w. paper) w. partial loss of 1 woodcut; some closed tears; sl. creased and fingersoiled.
= Rare A.B.-print.
"Ziet, hoe hij, wien de stem ontbreekt, Door middel van de hand nog spreekt. Maar dankt den Hemel, lieve Kind'ren. Als niets u in de spraak mag hind'ren." Catchpenny print w. 25 woodcut ills. to the letters of the alphabet, lettered "F", Amst., C.C.L. van Staden, ±1840.
- Waterst. in left margin and corners.
= Each woodcut w. a Dutch rhyming caption and an illustration of the fingersign for deaf mutes for the letter.
AND 2 others.
- Yellowed and sl. brittle; calligraphed name(?) in pen and ink. = KVCS p.839.
AND ±50 miscell. others, mostly 2nd half/ late 19th cent., incl. sl. mediocre copies.
- One print sl. agetoned and w. sm. tear/ hole; sl. creased. = KVCS p.802.
AND 4 others: PRENTEN-MAGAZIJN VOOR DE JEUGD. No.60, 61, 63 and 81 (Leyden, D. Noothoven van Goor/ Purmerend, J. Schuitemaker, ±1850).
- Sl. creased.
= KVCS p.728; Van Veen, cat. Rijksmus., Centsprenten, p.104 and no. 63: "De "Hahnengallerie" toont niet alleen hoe kloek de haan is, maar ook hoe duurzaam een houtblok. Na de Groot verhuisde het blok via Kannewet, Stichter en Noman naar de Turnhoutse uitgever Brépols [sic], die het blok tenslotte aan het Folkloremuseum in Antwerpen heeft afgestaan." One of the most famous catchpenny prints.
- Sl. stained and spotted. = KVCS p.832.
AND 2 others, i.a. "Militairen te paard" (woodcut catchpenny print, Breda, Broese & Comp., 1st half 19th cent.).
= Hunt 241; Nissen BBI 376a.
Idem. (Biblical scenes in contemporary landscapes). Four (of 24?) etchings, all ±9x12,7 cm., monogrammed "N.C.f" in the plate.
= Could also be attributed to Noël Cochin.
- Yellowed; some marginal foxed spots. = Rare.
AND 2 etchings (and drypoint) by Belgian artists Ferdinand GIELE and Theodore FOURMOIS.
- Good, contemp. impressions on paper with unidentified watermark; sl. age-toned; remnants on verso of former mounting in all corners and in centre of each margin (partly sl. visible on recto and 1x closing a sm. hole under the second A of "Januarius"
= New Hollstein 1351 and 1354, both 1st state (of 2).
- All neatly doubled; closed tears and tiny holes in the image near upper edge.
= Rare. New Hollstein 653-656, the 2nd and final state with the dec. borders.
- Trimmed on the border line; upper left corner sl. dam.; w. a ±2 cm. scratch in upper right corner; (sl.) soiled.
= New Hollstein (Collaert Dynasty V) 1241. First state of two. From the series of 24 Landscapes around Brussels, after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer.
- All (sl.) yellowed; all w. wide margins, w. sm. defects.
= Present are no. 13, 35, 38, 43, 44, 45 and 48. New Hollstein 186, 208, 211, 216, 217, 218 and 221, 2nd state (of 5) (6x) and 1st state (1x).
- Lacks 10 engravings; title-p. and one leaf w. plates loose; sl. yellowed throughout and partly foxed (in blank margins only, partly also affecting the engravings). Binding worn and darkened.
= Attractive small views.
- All prints (sl.) foxed/ waterst., mostly in blank margins (8 prints worse).
= Showing buildings in i.a. Abbeville, Amiens, Bergues, Brussels, Ghent, Louvain, Malines, Rheims, Rouen, St. Omer, Strasburg, Milan, Pavia and Ypres.
- Trimmed on the border line.
= Hollstein 160, first state (of 2), with "H. Cock excudebat" and "1564" in the plate.
AND 1 other similar by the same: The annunciation (Hollstein 24, 3rd state of 4. Four closed tears just affecting the image).
- Sl. foxed in blank margins.
= In 1854, during the Crimean War, the British steam frigate HMS Tiger grounded near Odessa and surrendered after coming under fire from Russian artillery from the shore.
- One print tipped onto paper mount and partially trifle creased; the other w. a few foxed spots.
= Hollstein 23 and 25, both 5th and final state.













































