1924 - 2080 WINE and BACCHUS (including PRINTS and DRAWINGS, GASTRONOMY)
- Vaguely browned in lower right corner.
Anonymous (17th cent.). (Diana and Bacchus). Oval (stipple-)engraving, 9,9x7,5 cm. - AND 1 other.
= Modern printing from the original plate, printed originally in London, 1785.
Kaiser, E. (1820-1895). "Bachantin". Oval lithograph on Chine collé after L. NEUSTÄTTER, 36,2x32 cm., lithogr. caption and address below image on mount.
AND 1 other: E. BEISSON, Bacchus (engr. after J.B. WICAR after LE GUIDE).
- Very fine copy. = Rare. Hollstein (Van Troyen) 81.
- Doubled, w. vague creases. = Hollstein 266 (erroneously(?) stating after C. Bega).
= Gaunt 61. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Without the caption below (in which the title is engraved). Trimmed to the borderline. Fine impression.
= Le Blanc 75 ("L'Alliance de Bacchus et de Cérès").
- Both sl. yellowed; a few small defects in outer upper and outer lower blank margin.
- Sm. triangular hole in image.
= With unidentified collector's mark on verso ("S" intertwined with a branch). Hollstein (Collaert) 293, 2nd state (of 2). Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Trimmed on the platemark; tiny hole in left border of image (just below "C. Cort fe."); sm. light brown stain in blank upper left corner; flattened horizontal fold.
= With unidentified watermark. Hollstein 149, 4th state (of 4). Rare print, originally printed in the Speculum Romanae Magnificantiae (The mirror of the splendour of Rome), which was the result of the collaboration between Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri in the years between 1553-1563, during which they published a large number of prints showing the beauty of ancient and modern Rome. These prints were sold separately to collectors and tourists, but also in albums containing a larger number of prints. After the decease of Lafreri a substantial part of the plates came into the possession of Claudio and Stefano Duchetti, who standardized the production of these albums and added the name of Duchetti to the plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
-Trifle dampstained in lower blank corners; sm. brown stain in the centre shining vaguely through from verso.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Closed tear in lower left corner; tiny paper flaw in image on right knee of the man seated on the right; vertical central fold.
- Tipped at all 4 corners onto paper mount.
= Very rare print, only one copy traced (sold in our auction of november 1996). Not known to Hollstein. "Tot nu toe weten we van het bestaan van slechts één prent van Crussens (...). Mogelijk gaat het om een unicum. Voorgesteld is een wijdbeens staande boer, die in zijn rechterhand een fiasco (een Italiaanse wijnfles) vasthoudt. Onder de afbeelding bevindt zich een tweeregelig vers in het Nederlands en (in een enigszins gewijzigde vertaling) in het Frans. Daarboven staat "Smolca", een woord waarvan niet bekend is wat wordt bedoeld. Vermoedelijk is het een eigennaam, die betrekking heeft op de afgebeelde figuur. Misschien heeft Crussens hem verkeerd gespeld en had er eigenlijk Svolta moeten staan, het Italiaanse woord voor kromming of bocht. De voorgestelde zou dan een commedia dell'arte-achtige figuur kunnen zijn. Dit type boer (...) gaat in grote lijnen terug op een serie etsen van Jacques Callot (1592-1635) uit ca 1616-22 met misvormde dwergen (...)." (Delineavit et Sculpsit 22, p.16). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Trifle yellowed. = Delteil 117, the 5th and final state.
- Fine contemp. impression, on paper w. grapes [!] watermark; small/ thread margins/ cut to the image. A few vague brown spots in corners and lower margin.
= Hollstein, Dolendo 5; New Hollstein, Van Mander 34. The 2nd state (of 2), with the adress of C.J. Visscher.
- No. 3, sl. yellowed and w. sm. closed tear in lower margin, just within the caption; no. 4 sl. soiled w. yellow translucent stain in the allegorical figure; no. 1 w. broad margins.
= Hollstein (Dolendo) 5, 7 and 8, 2nd state of 2; New Hollstein (van Mander) 34, 36 and 37.
- Righthand margin extended; left margin strengthened; lower margin closed tear and sl. creased.