5092 - 5387 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Some foxing, mainly in left and right margin; sl. dustsoiled.
- Probably doubled and laid down on mount; partly foxed.
= Attribution in pencil on mount. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Contents loose(ning); occas. fingersoiled in outer margin; partly sl. waterstained in lower blank margin and occas. in upper blank margin; a few drawings bound upside down; spine almost broken. Lacks backcover and backstrip; lacks paper over frontcover.
= Interesting album: the various approximately datable watermarks, the different styles of the drawings and the mounting of the drawings mixed with unmounted drawings suggest that it was compiled in the 2nd half of the 17th cent. from various sources from different late 16th-17th cent. dates. Containing drawings that are inspired by or copied from the famous geometrical engravings published in i.a. Lorenzo Sirigatti's La Practica di prospettiva (Venice, 1596), Wenzel Jamnitzer's Perspectiva corporum regularium (Nuremberg, 1568, engravings by J. Amman) and Luca Pacioli's Divina Proportione (Venice, 1509, engravings after Leonardo da Vinci). These geometrical engravings of often very complicated polyhedra were used to teach young artists the art of perspective and the proper manner of rendering light and shadow in their drawings. The drawings in this album can be divided into two groups: those that are very similar to the polyhedra found in the various works on the subject (a few drawings appear twice in the album, usually one neatly drawn example and one sl. less neatly done drawing) and those that are possibly original inventions by the artist(s) that made these drawings. The latter group consists of the following drawings: a cannon seen from above, a well with suspended buckets for drawing water, 4 drawings that show groups of capital letters leaning against blocks, an opened book with a drawing of a group of tulips, a room with a harpsichord and two chairs and an open door to a staircase in the background, two chairs, a single chair, two squares interlinked through rectangular openings and a 3D tesselated pattern for floor tiles. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS ON FRONTCOVER AND PLATE LXIX.
= Anti-hunting caricature.
- Yellowed.
AND 2 other flower still lifes: a watercolour after J. VAN HUYSUM and a handcol. stipple-engraving by ROUBILLAC after CARLE (from Cahier de fleurs).
= Spilman has drawn these kinds of sketches with similar dimensions, i.a. in the collection of the Noord-Hollands archive.
- Mediocre copy. Browned/ foxed; small dam. spot.
AND 8 other drawings, 19th/ early 20 cent., i.a. "Décor 1e Tafereel" showing students toasting (watercolour and pencil, 28x36,5 cm., illegible monogram), a black crayon portrait of a bearded man in three-quarter profile w. "Pulchri Studio" in lower right corner, a small pencil sketch of an old man holding his pants up attrib. to G. POGGENBEEK and a pencil portrait in the style of W. SLUITER w. monogram "W.S" (by the artist?).
- Sl. browned and foxed.
= For the engraving after the drawing see Dominque Sornique (1708-1756), Les delices de la tabagie, 1750. Professionally cleaned.
- Some scratches/ sl. worn spots (i.a. affecting horse and signature). = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
= Drawing in reverse after the lower part of the original painting by Titian, painted in ±1528. With a watermark "Lermonde".
- Vertical and horizontal folds; tears in edges affecting the image. = Decorative trompe l'oeil.
- A few closed tears/ sm. holes; sl. foxed; strengthened w. paper along outer margins.
= Shows overlapping drawings, playing cards and other documents, i.a. "De Snoeikonst der ooft bomen" and "Groot ABC Boeck". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
- Yellowed; a few foxed spots.
- A few foxed spots.
- Some foxing.
- Some very vague folds/ creases. Verso some sm. brown stains, sl. shining through and 3 rubbed spots in upper margin from former mounting.