5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
= Hollstein 26 (printer's flaw affecting image) and Hollstein 28 (a few old (oblique) creases (affecting image); sl. foxed/ soiled).
Idem. A water mill near St. Denis. Etching from the series of Views of Paris and neighbourhoods (title and 7 numb. plates), 13x24 cm., w. "Een water Molen buyten S. de Nys" and numb. "3" below the image.
- Impression with small margins. Trifle (dust)soiled; numb. "4" crossed out and "IIII" in brown pen and ink.
= Hollstein 69, the 2nd state (of 2) (no copies of the first state known to Hollstein). Verso w. the collector's stamp of Van Doorne (Lugt 4731).
- Closed tear in upper margin; touching the borderline. A few tiny foxed spots.
= Hollstein 88, the first state before the address.
- Two copies tipped onto mount. Occas. sl. foxed. = Hillemacher 15. Supplied in 3 (sl.) diff. states.
- All prints browned from offsetting of the mounts.
- Some fingersoiling; prob. sl. later impression on thick paper. = Berlin Kat. Orn. 827; IFF 145-153.
- All (sl.) waterstained.
- Trimmed just outside the image; sl. browned/ foxed.
= From the Grotessken Buch (Nürnberg, 1610). Kat. Orn. Berlin 32.
AND an anonymous engraving showing an ornamental baroque border (18th cent.).
- Closed tear in upper left corner; a few sm. stains; all corners and left edge strengthened on verso w. tape; sl. creased.
= Fuhring 1418; cf. Hollstein 143. Copy in reverse from the series Livre de fleur & de feuilles pour servir à lart d'orfevrerie (1635).
- Cut just outside the borderline; tiny tear in lower margin just touching the image. Left corners tipped onto mount.
= Godefroy and Hollstein 7, 9th (final) state.
AND 1 other etching by the same, Peasant with his hands behind his back (Hollstein 21, 6th (final) state).
- Good impression with ample margins w. indistinct watermark. Mounted along upper margin under passepartout; flattened former sharp middle-fold; a few unobtrusive sm. brown spots (mainly visible on verso).
= Hollstein and Godefroy 23, 5th state (of 10), without the vertical hatching on smudges between the wheel and border-line. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Good impression w. sm. margins; sl. yellowed.
= Godefroy/ Hollstein 30, the 8th state (of 11), from the Picart edition, with the light strip along the left border line and behind the drinking man's left elbow. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Large dam. spot in upper blank sky area; two flattened diagonal folds in upper left corner (visible on verso); ink(?) smudge on verso shining through on recto in right margin; tipped onto passepartout along upper margin.
= Godefroy and Hollstein 47, 3rd state (of 7). Before the rounding of the platemark. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Sl. foxed. = Hollstein/ Godefroy 24a, the 3rd state (of 5), before the strengthening of the borderline.
AND 3 sm. prints after the same.
- Ample margins; some vague blue offsetting in left (blank) margin.
= Godefroy/ Hollstein 28. The 5th state (of 8), from the Picart edition.
= Part of a series of 4 evangelists. Hollstein 38-41.
AND 2 others by the same: The Sacrifice of Isaac (closed hole, other minor imperfections. Hollstein 1, w. collector's mark of Friedrich August II of Saxony) and David Playing the Harp (closed tears on folds. Hollstein 3).
- Trimmed, just outside the platemark; sl. foxed ans soiled.
= Rare. Hollstein 16, first state, before the printed borderline and larger horizontal lines in the sky. This state not mentioned in Hollstein.
- Trifle grey impression. Old small annot. in brown ink in upper left corner; sl. yellowed/ trifle foxed.
= Hollstein 36.
- Trimmed to the border line.
= Probably part of a series of children's activities. See also the print in similar style and size of children playing blindman's bluff in the British Museum (1983,U.394). Earlier state with the printer's address and without the number.
AND 8 others by the same, all landscapes, incl. 3x circular, i.a. with addresses of I.van Merlen, N. Langlois, Le Blond and G. Jollain.
- All tipped onto one mount; all trimmed to the platemark.
AND 7 miscellaneous others, i.a. P.H. JONXIS, Venus et l'amour (engr. after L. GIORDANO, 30,5x35,8 cm.).
- Tipped onto 2 mounts at four corners; all prints trimmed to the borderline; one print w. central vertical fold w. closed tear at top end; one print w. vague narrow waterstain in right margin.