4683 - 5058 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Trimmed on/ just outside the platemark. = Hollstein 1-6, the 2nd state (of 4).
- Very vague stain in centre. = Hollstein 22, 3rd state (of 5).
Idem. (Riverlandscapes with travellers). Two etchings from another series of 6 Various landscapes, both 9x15 cm.
- Very good, later impressions on wove paper; good margins; trifle yellowed; verso of both w. remnants of former mount.
= Hollstein 27 and 28, 2nd state (of 2).
- Corners repaired (w. loss of image); verso remains of former mount. = New Hollstein 19.
- Mostly fine.
- Slightly yellowed.
= Rare very early print with letterpress text below and on verso. From the collection of "Werther", with his collector's blindstamps (not in Lugt).
- Sl. foxed in righthand border. Otherwise very fine.
= With a contemp. manuscript annot. in upper blank margin: "como si puniscono li simoniaci" (how the simonists are punished).
= Possibly from Missale secundum usum Sanctum Ordinum Cisterciensis (verso with "Prefatio diebus ferialibus").
- Fine, w. wide margins. = Rare, not found in collections or in literature.
- All trimmed just outside the border line.
= Very rare series of splendid miniature engravings. Supplied with a letter by Th. Laurentius to the consigner: "Uw prenten vreten aan me: ik ken ze niet en zelfs het watermerk (3 Franse lelies + 1 kroon) kan ik nergens terugvinden" and a former paper mount (with an unidentified collector's mark). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
AND 6 others: 5 other 19th cent. etchings, i.a. by Henri HARPIGNIES and Jules Jacques VEYRAND and a lithograph by Henri FANTIN-LATOUR.
= Bartsch (as Dürer) 18; Hollstein 124, the second state (of 2). On laid paper with a watermark showing a monogram "E" within a circle (Piccard, found in a document dated Augsburg, 1593).
- (Irregularly) browned.
= Curiously designed print with a small central oval portrait of Benjamin Franklin in front of various pernicious scenes in the upper half of the print and an oval portrait of H. Wester, J. Nieuwenhuizen and Th. van Swinderen [founders/ important members of the Maatschappij tot nut van het Algemeen] in front of scenes of industry, happiness and wealth in the lower half. The letters of the text blend in intricately with the appropriate scene. The letters of the words "Ledigheid" are filled with small portraits of famous men the letters of the words "Nijverheid en Vlijt" are filled with 35 small portraits of well known Dutch historical figures. The small numbers next to these faces refer to a legend which is not present here.
- Occas. sl. browned in margins.
= Partly with the accompanying text leaf. The complete set comprises 84 portraits.
AND 6 other (sm.) engravings, i.a. "Beëediging des genootschaps Pro Aris et Focis (...)" (ibid., idem, ±1790. Closed marginal tear. F.M. 4789b) and "Vergadering des Oeconomischen Taks (...)" (engraving by S. FOKKE after V. VAN DER VINNE, without address. Sl. foxed. F.M. 4329a).
- Trifle duststained in margins.
= F.M. 4475 (31 Dec. 1781): "Spotprent op de voor korten tijd gestaakte uitgave en vermeende dood van dit Oranje blad, van 1781 tot 83 door R.M. van Goens te Utrecht en anderen geschreven volgens zijne autobiographie (...). Links het huis van P.F. Gosse, Libraire de la Cour (op de hoek van de Vijverberg en de Gevangenpoort) waar vier aansprekers met eene vildershondenkar voor de deur staan om het lijk te ontvangen, gevolgd door Luzac op eenen kruiwagen, Van Goens met Jufvr. ten Bosch in een hok, Ds. Hofstede, twee Rotterdamsche boekverkoopers Haalna en Goednet, waar achter de Hertog van Brunswijk en voorts eene groote weenende stoet."
"Aanval op de Duyvendrechtse brug door de pruijsische troepen onder Commando van den Collonel Van Borstel (...)". Engraving by Th. KONING after J.D. TEISSIER, 37x46,5 cm., w. engr. captions in Dutch and French and "Proefdruk" below image, 1790.- Some handling creases; a few sm. closed tears. = F.M. 4963.
AND 2 others, i.a. "Aanval by Ouderkerk aan den Amstel by de binne Bullewijk over het Joden kerkhof (...)" (engraving by G. BROUWER after J.D. TEISSIER, 36x46 cm., w. engr. captions in Dutch and French and "Proefdruk" below image, 1790. F.M. 4965).
Engr. by N. VAN DER MEER w. engr. caption below image, 47,5x45 cm., ±1795. - Sl. frayed; two sm. repaired tears.
= Ten images set in a view of a temple. F.M. 5416a. Scarce.
"Monument voor Amsterdam MDCCLXXXVII". "Monument voor Amsterdam, no.2. MDCCLXXXVII". Two engravings, the first by M. SALLIETH after J. VAN MEURS, each ±32x40 cm., 1788, the 2nd print w. address of W. Houtgraaff.
- The second print lower left corner repaired, not affecting the image.
= F.M. 4978a and 4979. The first print commemorating the Prussian attacks around Amsterdam in 1787 and the second the various patriotic events in Amsterdam.
AND 1 other.
- Trifle/ sl. (water)stained; later copy w. sm. closed tear in upper left border; both trimmed just outside border line.
Idem. (Christ healing the sick). Oval etching, 8x10 cm., "j.w. bauer f" etched below image.
- Trimmed on outer (of two) border line.
= Hollstein 16, 1st state (of 2).
Etching, 7,7x6 cm. Idem. Seated man with his hat in his right hand. Engraving, 8,3x5,9 cm.
- Together tipped onto one mount. = Hollstein 23 and 17, both 2nd state (of 2).