6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Cut just outside/ inside the borderline. Partly waterst. (especially upper half); some small tears, especially upper margin.
- Small hole in upper left blank corner; some foxing; verso traces of former mounting in corners. Copy with rounded corners (especially lower left corner).
= Verso w. collector's mark (partly visible) and "319" in pen and red ink. Hollstein 41.
- Browned and soiled; tipped onto mount.
= Extremely rare, no other copies traced by us of this engraving. In 1537 monogrammist FG engraved the same composition but mirrored (cf. Nagler Monogrammisten, 2914, no.8), after which the present engraving was almost certainly copied. Nagler identifies FG as a German artist; our copy is possibly also from the German School. The composition is based on a design for a large series of tapestries "Giochi di Putti", commissioned by pope Leo X (for the Sala di Constantino in the Vatican) in Brussels around 1521. According to Vasari the designs are originally by Giovanni da Udine, leaving it unclear to what extent the designs of the series were based on a conception by Raphael (who died in 1520). The supervision of the project in Brussels, in the tapestry atelier of Van Aelst, lay in the hands of Tomasao Vincidor, who had been part of Raphaels workshop together with Giovanni da Udine. The tapestries and the cartoons are lost, but drawings of Vincidor have survived, including the drawing on which this composition was based (now in The British Museum).
- Dam. sectrion in right margin and small dam. spot upper in right corner; closed tears; a few tiny stains.
= Very rare, unrecorded portrait. On laid paper with unicorn watermark (probably Germany, ±1550). With the collector's stamp of A.P. van den Briel on verso (Lugt 407a). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Tiny repairs in upper margin; trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark.
= Slightly resembling the style of Hans Bol. Probably by a Flemish artist.
- Left margin w. sm. repairs on verso.
= Rare sheet showing four scenes of the arrival of the later king William III of Great Britain at Exmouth, at Exon, William meeting the Duke of Grafton and other nobles and finally arriving in Salisbury on 13th of December,1689. F.M. 2693-A. The start of the Glorious Revolution.
- Some brown staining, mostly in outer margins and lower part. = F.M. 134.
- Closed tear in lower margin; trimmed to/ within plate mark.
= Remarkable mezzotint (not traced). With printed on verso a cropped optical view "Il Mercurio, quarta Pianeta, e'l suo influsso."
= Jan Huibert Prins (1756-1806) made a printdrawing of this same dog (Rijksmuseum RP-P-1882-A-5681), so perhaps by him.
- Browned and partly waterst. in blank margins; outer blank margins folded due to former framing.
= Borders showing numerous attributes linked to various professions of the seated men.
AND an embossed and contemp. dec. lithograph of a couple, laid down on velvet mount (browned; formerly framed).
= Curtis/ Prouté 47, 2nd and final state.
= Curtis/ Prouté 41, the 2nd state (of 4).
- Verso with engr. text for another (unidentified) work, but largely worn off/ dam.
- With an 18th century manuscript caption below (partly vanished) "t Afbranden van van 't Oude Stadthuijs te Amsterdam (unread) 1652.
= On thick, sl. stiff 18th century laid paper, with watermark (prob. 'IV"(jean Villedary?)). Hollstein 1. FM 2027.
Etching from the series of 10 Seascapes with views of the IJ and Amsterdam (...), 17,1x23 cm., signed "L Bak" and "1701" (in reverse) in the plate, with the address of the artist below.
- Fine. = Hollstein 7, 3rd state of 3.
Etching from the series of 10 Seascapes with views of the IJ and Amsterdam (...), 17x23,5 cm., signed [below image] "L. Bakhuizen fec: et exc" and [in the image in reverse] monogrammed and "1701" in the plate, framed.
- Good impression. = Hollstein 10, 3rd state of 3.
Five (of 10) etchings from the series, all later (partly vaguely) handcoloured, 1701, each 17,2x23 cm., unif. framed.
- All fine.
= Hollstein 2-5 and 9, the 3rd state (of 3). Famous and very rare etchings by Holland's leading marine painter, etched when he was at the age of 71. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
The Set of Seascapes with views of the IJ and Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Katwijk, etc.
Five (of 10) etchings from the series, 3x w. modern handcolouring, 1701, each ±17x23 cm., on various kinds of 18th cent. laid paper.
- Occas. trifle yellowed (in blank margins); otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 1, 2, 6, 7 and 9, the 3rd state (of 3). The first etching without the six line verse by Backhuizen, printed from a separate plate. Famous and very rare etchings by Holland's leading marine painter, etched when he was at the age of 71. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.