5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Doubled, closing the split ends of an old horizontal fold; black border in upper left corner trifle dam. (chip of 5x2 mm., not affecting the print); tipped onto mount at centre of top margin.
= Schoch etc. 248f (with the watermark of an eagle with a flower and the splitting of the crack in the lower margin); Meder 211f. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Sl. yellowed.
= Hollstein Van den Heuvel 4 (only state); Wurzbach 4; Robert-Dumesnil 5 (stating that all etchings by Duvivier are very rare). With the collector's mark of Th. Jefferson Coolidge (Lugt 1429).
- Sl. yellowed; small margins. = New Hollstein 63.
AND ±45 other engr. portraits after the same, i.a. of D. KENELMUS (engr. by R.V. VORST), S. VOVET (engr. by R.V. VORST), W. DE VOS (engr. by S. à BOLSWERT), J. VAN RAVESTEYN (engr. by P. PONTIUS), S. VRANCX (engr. by S. à BOLSWERT), E. VAN SOLMS (engr. by C. WAUMANS), M. MIEREVELT (engr. by W.DELPHIUS) and C. DE MALLERY (engr. by L. VORSTERMAN).
- Browned.
= Plate 264 of G. Edwards, Gleanings of natural history: exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c., most of which have not, till now, been either figured or described : with descriptions of seventy different subjects (London, the author, 1760).
Idem. The Calandra. The Spotted Mole. Handcol. etching, 23,5x18,7 cm., titled, signed and date "Geo Edwards Del et Sculp AD. 1756" in the plate, unif. framed w. the preceeding.
- Browned.
= From G. Edwards, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals (London, the author, 1743-1751).
Direx, B. "Méthode pour la connoissance des Oiseaux par le Bec et par les Pattes". Seven engravings, each 24x34, mounted.
- Formerly folded; plate 3, 4 and 5 browned/ foxed, plate 7 partly waterstained.
= From Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières (Paris/ Liège, C.J. Panckoucke/ H. Agasse, 1782-1832), plate no. 1-7.
- Lacks frontisp. and 4 plates; occas. sl. fingersoiled. Covers worn.
= Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen, II, no. 485; Landwehr 527. Rare.
- Portfolio soiled. sl. dam.
= The albumen imprint w. added annotation in pencil by the artist ''Voor mijn klein zoon Frederik de Leuw'' and with mounted coat of arms at top in pen and black and red ink and sm. ticket below portrait given the name and the date of birth of the artist. Also added, loosely inserted: woodengr. confirmations document in German for ''Friedrich de Leeuw'', dated: ''29. September 1867'' and loosely inserted cut out drawings of a coat of arms in gouache w. use of gold paint (possibly a coat of arms for the family De Leuw''.
ADDED 4 others, i.a. F. DE LEUW, (Sleeping man with his head on the table, surrounded by gnomes trying to wake him with hamers and a trompone) (pencil, 14x12 cm., signed ''F. de Leuw, fec. 1877'').
= A probably complete series. First published in 1845, the series was very popular and reprinted well into the second half of the 19th cent. This copy appears to be an even later early 20th cent. reprint.
- Broad margins; unread gallery or collector's mark below image.
= Hollstein 3, the 4th state (of 4).
- Fine, w. ample margins.
= Hollstein 18-20, prob. all final state. All with an unidentified circular collector's mark on verso.
AND 1 other by the same: The Woman looking towards the Boat (H. 75, final state, w. identical collector's mark).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 96 and 98, both final state.
- Fine impression w. very broad margins. = Hollstein 77, the 3rd state (of 3).
Idem. The Chapel. Etching, 12,4x10,7 cm., monogrammed in the plate.
- Sl. soiled in ample margins. = Hollstein 10, final state.
AND 2 others by the same: The two carts (Hollstein 85, final state) and The Boat at the River Bank (Hollstein 88, final state).
= Hiler p. 523; Lipperheide Fa 19. From P. LAMESANGERE, Costumes des Femmes Françaises du XIIe au XVIII siècle (Paris, 1900).
- Some offsetting from plates on opposite pages; plate I sl. frayed and w. some sm. tears, not reaching image. Covers rubbed/ chafed. A good copy.
= Lipperheide Gca 18; Colas II, 2448; Tooley 388; Vinet 2193. Fine coloured plates with partially coloured backgrounds e.g. of a country fair or a scene around the pillory etc. Depicting all sorts of professions, e.g. fireman, herald, brewer, lord mayor. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Mostly sl. frayed along extremities; occas. some foxing, mostly in blank margins.
= Very nice prints of ladies with their children in elegant dresses. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Some foxing/ yellowing; some sl. frayed along margins.
- Occas. sl. frayed along margins; some browning, mostly in blank margins.
- Some sl. frayed along margins. = Vibrantly coloured plates.
- A few brown stains in centre; trimmed a few mm outside the platemark.
= Rare. Hollstein 17. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.