6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Doubled; some thin spots; a few vague creases in lower left corner; a few yellowed spots; traces of tipping onto mount on verso.
= With unidentified collector's stamp ("W" within circle) and owner's name in pen and ink on verso. Hollstein 11. Very rare (as is the complete series, which is only known in 2 copies). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
- A few sm. closed tears and lower right corner repaired; horizontal central fold; soiled and w. various sm. creases.
= With the collector's mark of Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830-1907) (Lugt 913) and with a 17th/ 18th century (collector's?) annotation in pen and ink showing a monogram (?) and "568-30" on verso and "Ao (or No) 281" on recto.
- Section (13x5 cm.) of blank upper right corner restored.
= Hollstein 289, 1st state (of 2), without the added bindweed, 2 lilies and two flies. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
- Fine impression.
= Very rare print (not traced in New Hollstein). "Johannes Teyler (...) produced, towards the end of the seventeenth century, engravings in colour (...). [He] brought the art of colour-printing so near to beauty-point that it becomes obvious that only the revival and perfection of the stipple were necesarry to establish it completely as a fine art" (J. Frankau, Eighteenth century colour prints p.60ff). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
- Dutch letterpress text added on w. glued strip of paper at the bottom; sl. foxed/ soiled.
= Showing four figures in profile, with (presumably) Bismarck on the bottom right. The print can be folded in such a way that the possible anwer to the question becomes clear by transformation of the faces.
AND 2 unrelated others.
- Doubled; sl. foxed. = F.M. 3985 (nr. 28); Niemeijer p.106, bb.
AND 7 others after Cornelis Troost from the same work: "Het verliefde Bregtje", "Hopman Ulrich of de bedrogen Gierigheid", "De schilder door Liefde", "Tartuffe of de Schynheilige bedrieger", Jan Klaaszen, of de gewaande dienstmaagd", "De stiefmoêr" and "De listige vryster, of de verschalkte voogd".
- Old folds; a few tears/ weak spots strengthened on verso.
= Hollstein, Danckerts 117; Hollstein, Nolpe 55; Muller 185; F.M. 1756; Scheepers I, 440; cat. Tulipomania Frans Halsmuseum 28. From the reprint of De drie t'Zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt, over de op- en ondergang van Flora (...) (orig. publ. Amst., 1643), reprinted during the period of high prices for hyacinths (1734). Krelage, Bloemenspeculatie in Nederland p.153: "In 1734 vreesde men zóó zeer een herhaling van den tulpenwindhandel dat een herdruk verscheen (...)." Rare.
- Trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark. Fine impression.
= New Hollstein 17, 2nd state of 5. One of a series of 4, The story of Tobias. With the collector's mark of Albert van den Briel (Lugt 407a).
- Both cut to the image, lacking the captions; both very dark impressions; first print w. vague creases and trifle soiled.
= Hollstein 73 and 74.
= Hollstein 426, 1st state (of 3). Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 123. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- No.1, 2 and 4 laid down on sl. later/ modern paper, all but one trimmed just outside the borderline; no.3 w. ample margins; all prints browned and sl. soiled.
= Hollstein 320-323, 2nd state of 3.
AND 3 other similar views (of 4) by the same after Pieter MOULIJN, all w. similar defects: Hollstein 324, 326 and 327 (all 1st states).
- Both trimmed to platemark; remargined w. Japanese.
= Hollstein 347 and 248, both 2nd and final state.
AND 4 similar engravings (each laid down on paper mount).
- Occas. sl. foxed.
= Hollstein 347-350 (Jan van de Velde II): "Not by Jan van de Velde, but by the same artist of the series of 12 oblong landscapes after Gillis van Scheyndel."
- Ample margins, fine.
= Hollstein 1, 2nd state of 3; Hollstein 2-10, 1st (only) or 2nd state of 2. With the collector's mark of A.J. Lamme (Lugt 138).
- Occas. some vague creases; 1x w. tiny marginal tear; all trimmed ±2 mm. outside borderline.
= Hollstein 41, copy a; Hollstein 38, copy a; Hollstein 35, copy a; Hollstein (after Van de Velde) 16; Hollstein 39, copy b, in reverse, 2nd state (of 2); Hollstein (after Van de Velde) 17. Rare complete series. Four on paper with foolscap watermark. Each with the collector's mark of Pieter Willem van Doorne on verso (Lugt 4731).
= Hollstein 19-21 and 23-27. Complete series of these later copies. Mostly with the collector's stamp of Pieter Willem van Doorne (Lugt 4731) and A.M. van den Broek on verso. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Landscape no. "2" w. sm. section near upper edge and upper right corner repaired, borderline in pen and ink; "2" and "6" punctured w. tiny holes for copying the composition; "3" sm. portion of lower right corner torn off, replaced in pen and ink; "6" section in upper part strengthened on verso; "5" w. sm. closed tear in lower right corner.
= Three prints with skaters on the ice. Hollstein 35 (copy a), 38 (copy a), 39 (copy b) and Hollstein (Anonymous after Esaias van de Velde) 16 and 17.
AND 1 other after the same: Landscape with a brewery (Hollstein 27, copy a).