4505 - 4569 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS
- Sl. creased in margins.
"Gezicht van het Stadhuis de nieuwe Kerk en de Waag - tot Amsterdam". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in German above and captions in Dutch, French and German below, ibid., idem, ±1790. - AND 4 others similar, i.a. "Gezicht van de Reguliers of Munts - Tooren van de Cingel te zien, tot Amsterdam" (without address. Trimmed within the platemark/ to the borderline) and "Vuë de la Porte des Zaag - Moolens à Amsterdam" (Augsb., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770).
"Vue de la Porte de Leyden à Amsterdam." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by J.F. LEIZELT after C. JACOBSZ. PHILIPS, engr. captions in French above and below, ibid., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770.
- Upper margin trimmed to the plate mark; 2 vague (false) vertical creases.
AND 1 other similar: "Vue Perspective du Koningsplein au reguliers-tooren, ou tour de la Monnoye, a Amsterdam" (without address, ±1770).
- Waterst. in upper right area.
AND 1 other.
- With modern sellophane on cut-out sections on verso; sm. vertical crease.
"'t Stadhuys van Amsteldam, van vooren aan te zien". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in Dutch, Italian, French and German below, numb. "274", Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770.
- Few vertical creases; sl. foxed. = Sixt v. Kapff K 186.
- Trimmed along margins; sm. vertical crease.
"Amstella Intus Respiciens ex Ponte versus Orphanotrophaeum Amstellodamensis". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin and Spanish below, ibid., idem, ±1780.
- Vertical crease; sm. tear in lower margin.
AND 6 others similar, i.a. "Le Chateau du Bourguemestre Waker aux environs d'Amsterdam, Ville Capitalle de Hollande" (Paris, J.F. Chéreau, ±1775) and "Vue de la nouvelle Hotellerie a Amsterdam prise du Coté opposé au Port" (ibid., idem, ±1775).
AND 2 others publ. by G.B. Probst: "De Kleveniers Burgwal naa de St. Antonis Waag te Zien, tot Amsteldam" and "De binnenkant van het Nieuw-Eyland naa de Mont Albaans Tooren te zien tot Amsteldam" (Sixt v. Kapff K 178 and 183).
- Margins sl. browned/ frayed. = Sixt v. Kapff K 184.
"Vuë de la Maison de Ville, L'Eglise neuve et le Poids sur le Dam". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by J.B. WINCKLER after S. FOKKE, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770. - AND 6 others similar, i.a. "Vue de l'Ecluse d'Amstel regardant par le dehors d'Amsterdam" (Paris, Basset, ±1790) and "Gezicht van de Nieuw Markt te Amsterdam" (without address, ±1790).
AND 2 other views of Amsterdam and The Hague, publ. by the same: "de Heere gragt vande Spiegel straat ziende naa de Leydse gragt, tot Amstelodam" (Sixt v. Kapff K 177) and "Gezicht van het Buyten Hof, tot Gravenhaghe" (Sixt v. Kapff K 213) (both trimmed to/ within the plate mark).
= Sixt v. Kapff K 187. Very fine and nicely coloured view depicting i.a. a small boy peeing in the water and a group of diving and swimming children.
"'t Gezigt van s Lands Zee-Magazin, de Stad Amsteldam." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view after P. VAN BLANKAERT, engr. caption in French above and captions in Dutch, French, Italian and German below, ibid., idem, ±1770.
- Sl. (water)stained/ soiled in blank margins. = Sixt v. Kapff K 189.
- Right and left side partly torn, dam. print; browned and somewhat soiled in margins.
= Sixt v. Kapff K 178.
ADDED: 7 others, i.a. "Prospectus Viae Imperialis versus Columnam Ss. Trinitatis Viennae" (Bassano, Remondini, ±1780) and "Vue perspective du Palais Visendic (...)" (Paris, Basset, ±1790).
= Sixt v. Kapff K 186.
"Gezicht van de Zuyder-kerk, tot Amsterdam." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Dutch and French below, without address, ±1770.
- Sm. wormhole in image.
AND 4 others, i.a. "Vue perspective du Binnekant, de l'Isle Neufie et de la Tour du Mont Albaan à Amsterdam" (without address, ±1790) and "Vue Perspective de la nouvelle Eglise Lutherienne et la Tour des Haringpakkers à Amsterdam" (Paris, Maillet, ±1760).
- Sl. soiled in margins.
AND 2 others, i.a. "A View of the Admiralty at Amsterdam, of the Store Houses, Wharfes and Docks belonging to it and to the East India Company of Holland" (ibid., H. Overton, 1752, mounted on board, w. caption cut off and laid down on verso).
- Sl. creased and browned. = Sixt v. Kapff K 188.
"Winter-Gezicht op de Cingel, voor de Luthersche Oude Kerk te zien tot Amsterdam". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Dutch and French below, without address, ±1770. - AND 4 others, i.a. "Le Pont (de Halvemansbrugg) vuë vers le Colveniers Doelen (...)" (Augsb., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1790, doubled, sl. creased/ browned) and "Le Cingle, la Tour de Jan-Rooden-Poort, et la nouvelle Eglise Lutherienne à Amsterdam" (Paris, Basset, ±1790).
- Sm. tear in lower margin. = Sixt v. Kapff K 383.
ADDED 3 others: "L'enfant prodigue retourne au Pere demandant pardon" (ibid., idem, ±1770. Sellotape on verso and sl. browned. Sixt v. Kapff K 349); "La Ville de Paris prise entre le Pont Royal et le Pont Neuf" (ibid., ±1770. Sixt v. Kapff K 113) and "La Porte de la Conference a Paris" (ibid., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1780).
- All sl. waterst.; sl. creased/ frayed; last print w. tear in upper margin, sl. affecting image.
= Rare series, with the story of the prodigal son set in an opulent 18th cent. setting.
- First sl. waterst. in lower margin.
"Prospectus Ecclesiae et Plateae SS. Annuntiationis Florentiae". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin and French below, without address, ±1770 (sl. waterst.). - ADDED: 4 others, i.a. "Vuë du Chateau de Belle Vue" (without address, ±1770) and "Vue perspective du dedans de la Chapelle Royale de Versailles" (without address, ±1770. Sl. waterst.).
- Second view sl. waterst. in lower blank margin; 3rd view trimmed within the plate mark (with loss of number).
"A View of Florence taken from the Vaga Loggia." "A View of the Priory at Florence, & the Palace of the Chief Magistrate Taken from ye Piazza of ye Church of ye Fathers of ye Oratory." Two contemp. handcol. engr. optical views by N. PARR after G. ZOCCHI, both w. black painted borders, London, R. Sayer and J. Boydell, 1750, mounted on board, w. engr. caption cut off and laid down on verso.
- Second view w. manuscript caption in Dutch in upper margin.
AND 2 others similar.