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Royal Naval Officer's 1827 pattern dress sword. Complete with original leather and brass scabbard. Worn but distinguishable etching to both sides of blade. With gold-braided tassel to hilt. Overall Length 94cm. Blade length 79cm.

William Lionel Wyllie, 'HMS Victory in Portsmouth Harbour', signed, etching, pl.21.5 x 49.5cm. 

William Lionel Wyllie, 'In The Solent, Towards Ryde', signed in pencil, etching, pl.21.5 x 49.5cm.

S M Litten, 'Thames Boats & Crafts', signed in pencil, etching, pl.17.5 x 30cm. 

William Lionel Wyllie, 'Beached Schooner, Thames Estuary', signed in pencil, etching, pl.23 x 35.5cm.

After Salvador Dali, 'Cervantes', labelled verso, etching, pl.17.5 x 12.5cm.

William Lionel Wyllie, 'The Thames off Greenwich', signed in pencil, sepia etching, pl.21.5 x 38cm. 

Andre Bicat, 1909-1996, Three Figures, coloured etching with aquatint, numbered in pencil 34/60, 50 x 42cm

William Black (Contemporary)"Moored Boats"Signed, dated (19)62 and numbered 19/25, coloured etching, 10cm by 10cm (unframed)

Continential School (20th Century)Head Study of a Boxer DogIndistictly signed, oil on canvas, 49cm by 39cm; together with another similar oil on board and a copper etching (3)

A Collection of Prints and Pictures; to include two monocromatic mixed media studies of a derelict house and an abandoned mill respectively, two watercolours of shipping scenes by Will Wedgewood, a black and white print of Guisborough Priory, an etching by Fred Cecil Jones Industrial Mills by the Leeds Canal, three signed and numbered coloured reproductions After Robert Leslie Howey, a framed map of North Yorkshire, etc... (quantity)

Piers Browne (b.1949)"March in Tenerife-Mount Teide"Signed, inscribed and dated (19)84, numbered 7/100, coloured etching; together with a colour reproduction by the same hand,"Summer, Wensleydale", signed and inscribed, 30.5cm by 39cm and 14.5cm by 18.5cm respectively (2)

Holme (Charles), The Graphic Arts of Great Britain, Studio Ltd, 1917; Modern Masters of Etching, 3 volumes, The Studio, 1927-1932; Gombrich (E. H.), Art and Illusion, Phaidon, 1968; The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs; and others on art, graphic design and photography (27)

H. Vredeman de Vries, van Doetecum brothers - Castle Garden inside fortress wall / Description: This print is described by the Rijksmuseum (RP-P-1964-1642) and makes part of , a series of small architectural prints engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum , first published by Hieronymus Cock in 1562, then by Theodor Galle in 1601, and some decades later by his son Joan Galle. We see a view of a castle with a fortress wall on the left. To the right a corridor of latticework and a pavilion in front. The edition could not be established but based on the superior quality comparing to the Rijksmuseums example and the ones found elsewhere: this is certainly an early impression from 1601 or earlier. Rare in this early printing quality! / Dimensions: 15,20 x 21,00 cm / Condition: Very good impression with plate tone and ink smudges in the plate borders. With wide margins in the original full sheet of laid paper. / Literature: New Hollstein Dutch 281 Van Doetecum, Hollstein Dutch 99-Vredeman de Vries / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1562 260

Karel Dujardin - The Battlefield - 1652 / Description: The battlefield. Landscape with a naked man lying dead in foreground, a horseman looking down at the body at left, a man carrying spoils at the horse's rear, a clothed body lying face down and a dead horse at right, a troop of cavalry armed with lances in background and galloping away to the left; at top left: "K. DV. I. fe. / 1652". Second state with the number. / Dimensions: 16,80 x 19,80 cm / Condition: A good impressing on watermarked laid paper in good condition. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (28. II) ----- Barch 28 II / IV / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1652 220

Carel Dujardin-The hinny with the little bel / Description: The hinny with the little bell. Landscape with a mule standing at center, in profile to right, wearing a halter from which two bells hang, two other asses resting in right background, trees enclosed within a straw fence beyond; second state with number. 1653 Etching made by Carel Dujardin. / Dimensions: 19,80 x 16,40 cm / Condition: Excellent impression with good plate tone on a full sheet of watermarked laid paper with good margins. Excellent condition. / Literature: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (1.182.29) --- Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (29.II) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1653 180

Matthäus Merian, Gilles van Coninxloo - Stately fishing - RR / Description: Fishing. From a series of stately hunting scenes in the style of Gilles Coninxcloo. In an arm of the river that is separated by nets, fishing is carried out with hand nets and hand gaffs, a noble couple in courtly costume follows the event. Ref: Hollstein 468. Etching on Laid paper with a watermark. This fresh early impression dates from the first half of Merian his career (in his twenties). In his early works, he showed a great talent for landscape etching close to some Flemish Contemporains such as the master of the small landscapes and he made even work after Jan Breughel the younger. Here Gilles Coninxcloo is the inspirator. The landscape art from his early period deserves more attention as it is far superior to his later work. This is a very rare print, very hard to find, not found in the British Museum, not in the Rijksmuseum, one of the series in the Harvard Art Museum (Object Number M22312.70) and some mostly incomplete sets in famous German collections (Strassburg, Nuremberg, Coburg...).Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650), born in Basel, Switzerland moved to Oppenheim in 1617 and when the city of Oppenheim was destroyed in 1620 by fire during the Spanish occupation he moved back to Basel. Merian married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617 and worked for his father-in-law. To be noted that Coninxcloo (the brother-in-law of Pieter Breughel the Younger) , also worked in Frankenthal (nearby Oppenheim) for a while, as also did Jan Breughel the Younger in Nuremberg. The Flemish artists have a footstep in the region. / Dimensions: 15,40 x 22,10 cm / Condition: Splendid impression on watermarked dense thin laid paper with full plate border and mostly tread margins. / Literature: Hollstein 468 - Wüthrich 236 / Medium: Engraving /Circa: C. 1616-1617 320

Jan Both (1618-1652) -Two mules on the road near the Rocca Aquatico in Ancona. / Description: Two mules on the road near the Rocca Aquatico in the province of Ancona. Landscape with the mules accompanied by a male figure and a dogs on a road, which follows steep cliffs at left, a view of a gorge with a bridge leading across a waterfall in centre background; from a series of four upright landscapes. Etching made by Jan Both, here in the rather rare third state with the publishers address of Theodor Matham. / Dimensions: 26,50 x 20,50 cm / Condition: Good impression on dense laid paper in very good condition. Top right corner slightly wrinkkled. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (4.III) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (V.207.4) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1636-1652 150

Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685) - The Barn / Description: The interior of a barn. 1647. Signed with the artist's name, 'Av. ostade', and dated '1647' at bottom left. Excellent impression of the final state. This is one of van Ostades most famous etchings. Adriaen Van Ostade was born in Haarlem in Holland in 1610 and died there in 1685. His etchings are dated between 1647 and 1671. He was more prolific as a painter than an etcher, leaving us only 50 etchings. Nevertheless he is probably the most sought after 17th Century Dutch etcher after Rembrandt. / Dimensions: 16,00 x 19,40 cm / Condition: In excellent condition. A good dark impression on laid paper with good margins around the plate border. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (23.X) This is tenth state with area above woman's back shaded with horizontal lines --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (I.362.23)--- Lit.: P. van der Coelen, 'Everyday life in Holland's Golden Age: The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade', ex. cat. Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1998, no.23. / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1647 360

Matthäus Merian, Gilles van Coninxloo - Stately Deer Hunt - RR / Description: Deer Hunt. From a series of stately hunting scenes in the style of Gilles Coninxcloo. A deer is attacked by three dogs in the river. On the left a noble rider and a noble lady sitting on a stone under a Chinese parasol. Etching on Laid paper with a watermark. This fresh early impression dates from the first half of Merian his career (in his twenties). In his early works, he showed a great talent for landscape etching close to some Flemish Contemporains such as the master of the small landscapes and he made even work after Jan Breughel the younger. Here Gilles Coninxcloo is the inspiratory. The landscape art from his early period deserves more attention as it is far superior to his later work. This is a very rare print, very hard to find, not found in the British Museum, not in the Rijksmuseum, one of the series in the Harvard Art Museum (Object Number M22312.70) and some mostly incomplete sets in famous German collections (Strasburg, Nuremberg, Coburg...).Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650), born in Basel, Switzerland moved to Oppenheim in 1617 and when the city of Oppenheim was destroyed in 1620 by fire during the Spanish occupation he moved back to Basel. Merian married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617 and worked for his father-in-law. To be noted that Coninxcloo (the brother-in-law of Pieter Breughel the Younger) , also worked in Frankenthal (nearby Oppenheim) for a while, as also did Jan Breughel the Younger in Nuremberg. The Flemish artists have a footstep in the region. / Dimensions: 15,40 x 22,10 cm / Condition: Splendid impression on watermarked dense thin laid paper with full plate border and tread margins. / Literature: Wütrich 237, with the reference to Coninxcloo / Medium: Engraving /Circa: C. 1616-1617 320

Antonio Tempesta - The Labours of Hercules (complete 13) -1608 / Description: A rare complete series of 12 etchings and title etching. The series was first published by Nicolas van Aelst in Rome in 1608. A very nice series mostly printed with good plate tone. Complete with full plate border and margins. The address of Van Aelst erased on title page in this state. / Dimensions: 9,80 x 14 cm / Condition: Mostly fine strong impressions with plate tone, a couple slightly weaker. General good uniform condition. / Literature: Bartsch 788-799 / Medium: Etchings /Circa: 1608 650

Wendel Dietterlin - Two Virgins of Chastity with unicorn - 1598 / Description: Etchings from Architectura. Published in Augsburg in 1598. At right we see a woman with unicorn, symbol of chastity and a small ldog besides her, symbol of fidelity. At left Leda with Zeus disguised in the form of a swann. In an architectural setting with coat of arms involving helmets. / Dimensions: 24,60 x 18,50 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. Full plate border and good margins on watermarked laid paper. / Literature: Thieme/Becker IX, 269. Hollstein VI, 214. ------ “One of the most interesting and important architectural works of sixteenth-century northern Europe is the ‘Architectura von Ausstheilung, Symmetria und Proportia der fünff Seulen’ of Dietterlin... [Dietterlin’s] artistic fame and influence was unparalleled in Germany in the first two decades of the seventeenth-century, and in this respect and others, his significance, especially in his dissemination of Renaissance decorative forms in Germany, parallels and even transcends that of Vredeman in the Netherlands (Harry Francis Mallgrave : 'The Millard J. Millard Architectural Collection, III: Northern European Books,(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 25ff., nos. 28-29) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1598 120

Quentin Massijs, Thomas Cheesman, The tax collectors, the Misers. / Description: The tax collectors, The Misers. Rare aquatint etching after the famous painting of Quinten Massijs. Made by Thomas Cheesman ca 1791. published in London by A.Molteno. Description of how Quentin Matsys became a painter. He was a blacksmith and became a painter so that the father (a painter) of his bride agreed with the marriage. Very rare aquatint etching in a superb dark early impression with lot of details with large margins. Light foxing but not disturbing. High quality etching on laid paper with large margins. / Dimensions: 28,4 cm x 21, 9cm / Condition: Very rare aquatint etching in a superb dark early impression with lot of details with large margins. Light foxing but not disturbing. High quality etching on laid paper with large margins. / Literature: / Medium: aquatint /Circa: 1791 575

Rembrandt Van Rijn - Study of the head of Saskia and others, 1636 / Description: Etching, Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669): Study of the head of Saskia and others, 1636. New Hollstein 157 II(II) second state of two, Bartsch 365-1(1), Hollstein Dutch 365-1(1). In good restored condition. Printed on thin laid paper, on the margins, image complete. Two restored tears. A very good watermark shield with crown with baselstab. Very good dark impression with lot of details, the hand of Rembrandt. With two collectors mark on the back. / Dimensions: 15,1 cm x 12,4 cm / Condition: In good restored condition. Printed on thin laid paper, on the margins, image complete. Two restored tears. A very good watermark shield with crown with Basel stab. Very good dark impression with lot of details. / Literature: New Hollstein 157 II(II) second state of two, Bartsch 365-1(1), Hollstein Dutch 365-1(1) / Medium: etching /Circa: 1636 3500

C.C. Van Wieringen landscape, by C.J.Visscher - 1613 / Description: A hamlet in the mountains designed by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (1577-1633) etching by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587-1652), plate 13 from the series "Dutch Landscapes", considered as one of the most beautiful landscape series of the Dutch 17th century Edited by Davids de Meine in 1613. Hollstein Dutch 339. / Dimensions: 13,80 x 19,00 cm / Condition: Outstanding impression in top condition. Full plate border and tread margins. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (339) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1613 200

Pietro Testa, Achilles with the body of Hector behind his chariot / Description: Achilles with the body of Hector behind his chariot. Etching made by Pietro Testa (1611-1660)ca 1648. Published in Rome by Arnold Van Westerhout (Antwerp 1651- Rome 1725) in Rome ca 1681-1725. Bartsch 22, Cropper 121, Illustrated Bartsch 6(6). In good condition, good impression on laid paper with large margins and a good watermark. middle fold flattened and reinforced. / Dimensions: 27, cm x 42,6 cm / Condition: In good condition, good impression on laid paper with large margins and a good watermark. middle fold flattened and reinforced. / Literature: Bartsch 22, Cropper 121. Illustrated Bartsch 6(6) / Medium: etching /Circa: 1648 500

Leonardo De Vinci - Deformed Heads, By Wenceslaus Hollar / Description: The Leonardo da Vinci studies of deformed heads are famous. A couple with deformed faces depicted bust-length, facing each other, the woman at left wearing a cap and veil, smiling at the man, with fuzzy hair, laughing, wearing a jacket over striped shirt; after Leonardo da Vinci; first state, before '3' added to lower right. 1645. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci. Signed upper right 'Leonardo da Vinci inue: / W. Hollar fecit 1645'. From the series: Varie Figuræ et Probæ , a series of thirteen etched plates + title after Leonardo da Vinci, with studies of heads, including grotesques; see New Hollstein (Hollar) 737-750. / Dimensions: 7,50 x 10,60 cm / Condition: A very good sharp early impression of the first state before the number with full plate border and tread margins. On a dense laid paper with partial watermark. Condition is very good with no folds, tears or stains. A wonderful untouched condition. / Literature: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (743.I) --- Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1591.I) / Medium: Etching /Circa: C.1645 420

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - S. Maria degli Angeli - First State / Description: PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista S. Maria degli Angeli. Interior. A very large etching in first state on thick laid paper with Fleur de Lys watermark in double circle, signed in plate on cartouche in center below "Cav. Piranesi F.". Interior view of the S. Maria degli Angeli, formerly the Central Hall of the Baths of Diocletian. Ref. Hind 72.129. - Wilton-Ely 305:262. / Dimensions: 48,70 x 72,00 cm / Condition: Splendid and dark impression of the 1st state (of 4), before the numbers, on Fleur de Lys watermarked laid paper / Literature: Wilton-Ely 1994 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings (262) --- Hind 1922 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a critical study (129.I / IV) --- Focillon 1918 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre (835) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1760-1778 600

Andries Stock - Portrait of Karel van Mander, 1610 / Description: Karel van Mander, famous Flemish painter . Seen three-quarter length, directed to the left head slightly turned to face the viewer, holding a paper in his left hand. A portrait from the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. This is a first edition published by Hondius, a later edition was published in 1612and 1618 by Jansonius. / Dimensions: 2060 x 12,50 cm / Condition: Outstanding early impression on a full sheet of watermarked laid paper. In excellent condition. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (80-155) ----- Muller II 1853 / Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (2400) ----- van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders. (M.2400) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1610 220

Simone Cantarini (1630-1648) - Holy family with S.John / Description: The Holy Family seated with the infant St John; St Joseph holds his hand to his cheek. An intimate and warm family portrait with St. John the Baptist in the background holding a flag standard. Signed bottom left: 'S.C. da Pesare fe'. Etching made by Simonne Cantarini. B.12, only state. / Dimensions: 13,40 x 8,50 cm / Condition: Good impression with plate tone, laid paper, full plate border and tread margins. / Literature: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIX.130.12) --- Massari 1997 / In 'Simone Cantarini detto il Pesarese', ed. Andrea Emiliani (35) / Medium: Etching and drypoint /Circa: a 420

Hieronymus Cock, View of the Forum Romanum in Rome / Description: View of the Forum Romanum in Rome" From the series Roman ruins.??? Etching made and published By Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) in Antwerp ca 1550-1551. references: Hollstein Dutch 46, Riggs 25. In very good condition. Good impression printed on very thin laid paper, on the margins, image complete. Mounted on another thicker laid paper. / Dimensions: 19,8 cm x 29,8 cm / Condition: In very good condition. Good impression printed on very thin laid paper, on the margins, image complete. Mounted on another thicker laid paper. / Literature: Hollstein Dutch 46, Riggs 25 / Medium: etching /Circa: 1550-1551 1250

Hieronymus Cock - View Of Colosseum - 3 / Description: Colossaei Ro.[mani] prospectus 3 (Colosseum prospect 3) This etching shows a section of the Colosseum. At the time as he was publishing his first series of ruins in Antwerp, Cock was also publishing maps. The inscription "PROSPECTUS" alerts beholders that the image is a view, rather than a plan. . From : Roman Antiquities, from a series of 24 numbered and lettered etchings +title engraved and published by Hieronymus Cock: Praecipua aliquot Romanae antiquitatis ruinarum monimenta, vivis prospectibus, ad veri imitationem affabre designata In florentiss.[ima] Antuerpia per Hiro.[nymus] Coc[k]. Mense Maio, Anno M.D.LI. Cum caesa privilegio ad VIII an / Dimensions: 24,60 x 34,00 cm / Condition: Very good early impression on laid paper with a heraldic shield watermark. Full plate border and one centimeter margins. Flattened middle fold slightly teared in on top, invisibly closed; some other small closed tears in the margin, at left corners with small paper loss of margin corner. Overall good and inside plate border very good condition. Very enjoyable impression. / Literature: Cock journeyed to Rome between 1546-8 intending to study antique sculpture, but became fascinated with the Palatine monuments, mounting expeditions to the Colosseum and the Baths of Diocletian. The drawings for several prints, survives a.o. now in Edinburgh, and were likely executed by Cock on the spot. As the other etchings from this early series, it was etched by Cock himself in the first years after his return from Rome in 1548. As a publisher, Cock would have been well aware of the potential for ruins to appeal to collectors of art as well as those interested in Rome. The series were important and came to exert a lasting influence on landscape painting from mid-century, informing the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Veronese. (description credit to: Christopher P. Heuer, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1550 800

G.-B. Piranesi - Ponte Trionfale / Description: Ponte trionfale - Triumphal bridge. Etching from Opere Varie di architettura, prospettivi, grotteschi, antichita; inventate, ed incisi di Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano. This plate from the Roman edition of Opera Vari II was not published before 1761 in any volume, and was an adition to the Opere Varie I of 1750. Good impression from the Roman edition (before the three digits numbes of the later Paris edition). / Dimensions: 15 x 21,80 cm / Condition: Excellent condition with no folds, tears or stains. Full plate border and good wide margins. / Literature: Focillon 130 first state without the number, Wilton-Ely 745, / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1760 250

Matthäus Merian - Berg by Suttgart - Unknown Proof state (RRRR) / Description: Proof state unknown to Wüthrich (!). Very atmospheric etching showing the village of Berg by Stuttgard with the bridge over the Mühl canal flowing in the Neckar on the right. This etching (Wüthrich.528) in an extremely rare unfinished proof state, before adding of: 1. the small stork's nest, the dovecote and the sign on the the house to the left of the canal. 2. seven birds in the sky, 3. further additions on the roofs of the house on the right, 4. two walkers in the middle right on the horizon, 5. a plentitude of shrubbery added in bottom section and right bottom corner. 6. additional cross hatching adding shade in several parts for instance on the man front left. Still with still square plate borders. Wütrhrich describes two states, the second with added number, but this proof state is unknown to him, not described in his catalogue raisonné in 1966. This excellent early impression in unfinished proof state was only printed in a few copies and probably no other has been preserved. Merian married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617 and worked for his father-in-law. In his early works in his twenties and thirties, he showed a great talent for free landscape etching after his own designs, close to his contemporains Jan van de Velde and other fine Dutch landscape artist but also influenced by Flemish artists such as the master of the small landscapes and even work after Jan Breughel the younger. His landscape art from his early period deserves more attention as it is far superior to his other work. / Dimensions: 13,80 x 17,10 cm / Condition: An early outstanding, richly inked and luminous impression on a full sheet of laid paper. Excellent condition with no folds, tears or stains. Old number in sepia ink in the upper right margin. An extremely rare proof state in an very early outstanding printing condition. / Literature: Wüthrich 1966-1996 (Merian) - 528 (proof state preceding state I) RRRR --- For the preparatory drawing by Merian for this etching see Wüthrich catalogue S.226 Abb.402. / Medium: Etching /Circa: Circa 1620-1622 360

Matthäus Merian, Gilles van Coninxloo - Boar Hunt - RR / Description: Wild Boar Hunt. From a series of stately hunting scenes in the style of Gilles Coninxcloo. A boar comes into a forest clearing from the right and is stopped by nets and attacked by dogs. Two riders stab and hit a boar. This fresh early impression dates from the first half of Merian his career (in his twenties). In his early works, he showed a great talent for landscape etching close to some Flemish Contemporains such as the master of the small landscapes and he made even work after Jan Breughel the younger. Here Gilles Coninxcloo is the inspiratory. The landscape art from his early period deserves more attention as it is far superior to his later work. This is a very rare print, very hard to find, not found in the British Museum, not in the Rijksmuseum, one of the series in the Harvard Art Museum (Object Number M22312.70) and some mostly incomplete sets in famous German collections (Strasburg, Nuremberg, Coburg...).Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650), born in Basel, Switzerland moved to Oppenheim in 1617 and when the city of Oppenheim was destroyed in 1620 by fire during the Spanish occupation he moved back to Basel. Merian married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617 and worked for his father-in-law. To be noted that Coninxcloo (the brother-in-law of Pieter Breughel the Younger) , also worked in Frankenthal (nearby Oppenheim) for a while, as also did Jan Breughel the Younger in Nuremberg. The Flemish artists have a footstep in the region. / Dimensions: 15,40 x 22,10 cm / Condition: Splendid impression on watermarked dense thin laid paper with full plate border and tread margins. / Literature: Hollstein 470 --- Wütrich 238, with the reference to Coninxcloo / Medium: Engraving /Circa: C. 1616-1617 320

Rembrandt Van Rijn - Self-portrait in cap and scarf - 1633 / Description: Self-portrait of Rembrandt, in a cap and scarf with the face dark, bust directed to left but face to front. Rembrandt's signature and date, in lower margin: "Rembrandt f. 1633. This is an early impression of the third state. The first state was unfinished and known in only one example. In the third state small alterations to the more common second state were made to the lid of the left eye and the shade of the moustache but still generally untouched. Before the later rework by Basan in the fourth state and the heavy rework in the fifth state. / Dimensions: 13,30 x 10,40 cm / Condition: An early third state impression, superb, richly-inked with little to no sign of wear, even in the most densely cross-hatched areas such as the shadow on the face, the beret and the cloak. With full plate borders and small margins on a dense laid paper. Condition is near perfect, former hinges at top corners vaguely visible. An excellent example of maybe the the best self portrait by Rembrandt. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (120.III) --- Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (108.II) --- White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (17.II) --- Bartsch 17 --- Biörklund 33-G; --------------- Rembrandt (1606-1669) etched some 30 self-portraits, with 27 singular images of himself and several others of himself in different guises or grouped with other portrait studies. This self-portrait, created at the age of 27, two years after he had moved to Amsterdam from Leyden to begin to establish himself as a successful independent artist, and months before he married Saskia van Uylenburgh, is among Rembrandt's most introspective self-renderings. / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1633 6000

Jean Bartault, G.Kilian - Ruins of Temples of Minerva Medica and Concordia - 1767 / Description: View of the ruins of the Temple of Minerva Medica, the temple of Concordia and other monuments in Rome; Roman antiquity. – 1767. Etched by Kilian, a student of Piranesi. The source of this rare original etching is: 'Denkmaler des Alten Roms oder Sammlung der vornehmen und noch in Rom vorhandenen Alterthumer nach Barbaults Zeichnung nebst einer Erklarung derselben aus dem Franzosischen ubersetzt.' Monuments of ancient Rome after drawings by Barbault and a description thereof translated from French, published by Conrad Heinrich Stage, Augsburg, 1782. This edition is a translation of the original French edition: 'Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne The etching is engraved by Georg Christoph Kilian, German engraver, collector and cartographer (1709-1781 in 1762), after Jean Barbault (ca. 1705-1766), a French painter and engraver.Kilian is a talented engraver who was a student of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. / Dimensions: 33,00 x 45,00 cm / Condition: A good impression on a large sheet of laid paper with flattened middle fold and original paper strip on the backside. Condition is good, full plate border, wide margins, no folds or stains. / Literature: Le Blanc 1854-89 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes 1550-1820 (2 and further) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1770 140

Jacob Matham (1571-1631) - The Holy Family with two angels / Description: The Holy Family with two angels; an angel, at left, reaches up towards the branches of a cherry tree and tugs on a branch; the Christ child perches on the Virgin's lap and reaches out towards the angel and holds three cherries; behind Joseph another angel stands with a basket of the fruit. Signed in in top right corner "Maetham. Harlemensis / fecit et excud". In the lower margin four lines and "HSS" (monogram): "Quam dulces semper ... promittere nescit". Engraving made by Jacob Matham / Dimensions: 25,50 x 18,60 cm / Condition: A fine impression in good condition on watermarked laid paper (Dutch Virgin in the Garden). Vertical fold bottom right corner. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (74.I) ---- Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (105) ---- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.133.1) / Medium: Etching /Circa: Ca. 1600 320

Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685) - Two Gossiping Women / Description: Two elderly women gossiping in a village street, a trader in left background, and weighing goods for sale to a group of peasants.' A.v. ostade' at bottom left. Adriaen Van Ostade was born in Haarlem in Holland in 1610 and died there in 1685. His etchings are dated between 1647 and 1671. He was more prolific as a painter than an etcher, leaving us only 50 etchings. Nevertheless he is probably the most sought after 17th Century Dutch etcher after Rembrandt. / Dimensions: 10,20 x 8,90 cm / Condition: In excellent condition. On laid paper with full plate border and small margins. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (40.V ) -- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (I.373.40) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1648-1654 240

Anonymous 17Th.C. - Allegory on the art of painting / Description: On the steps of a classical building a female painter is in reflection before a white canvas. Several people are looking to the empty panel held by a putti. Envy in anger, with several snakes twisted around her body, is pointing to non existing details. A pair of bearded men waring glasses is looking besides her, a satyr in the background. A young man is hiding behind the canvas. The meaning could be the caution that a painter must show in choosing his subjects in order not to paint disturbing subjects. / Dimensions: 19,50 x 13,20 cm / Condition: A good impression with still some ink in the plate borders. With full plate border and one centimeter margins on watermarked laid paper. Flattened middle fold, smooth foxing to the margins. / Literature: / Medium: Etching /Circa: Circa 1640-1680 240

Cornelis Bega (1631-1664) - The Young Hostess / Description: The Young Hostess (B. 33), Outstanding fine impression of this rare print, second state (of five), still printing with many of the light scratches and impurities in the plate. Etching made by Cornelis Bega circa 1642-64, on laid paper, partial watermark of they Arms of Amsterdam. From the collection of Freiherr Adalbert von Lanna. / Dimensions: 17,50 x 15,60 cm / Condition: Outstanding impression in excellent good condition. . Small collection stamp of Freiherr from Lanna on the backside / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (33.II)Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (V.239.33. II/V ) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1642-1664 600

Jan Breughel, M. Merian - Nuremberg landscapes, complete series (6) in proof states by Merian (RRRR) / Description: Jan Breughel the Younger , who had spent some days in Nürnberg made the original drawings for this series. The engraver and publisher Peter Isselburg (1580-1631), originally from Cologne selected a total of six images, which were engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder. He published the series in 1616 with etched titles top middle of the etchings. Here a complete series of these landscapes from the Nuremberg area (Wüttrich 226-231) in incredible rare proof states, before the title on top and with still square plate borders. Prints from this set are very rare to find let alone as a complete set in proof states even not described by Wütrich, the specialist who complied his catalogue raisonné in 1966. . This excellent early impressions before publishers address or title and with still square plate borders are from the very first impressions of the copper plates, proof states before adding title and before published. Matthäus Merian I born in 1593 married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617 and worked from then for his father-in-law. Here early works even before his marriage In his mid twenties. His early work shows great talent for free etching. His landscape art from that period is the best in his oeuvre This series is certainly one of the nicest he made. The subjects are identified as: Hallers Weyer Hause (W.226), Fischers häuslein untterm Lazarëth, see also A. Dürer aquarell (W.227), S Johannesfriedhofs und Kirche (W.228), Der Tetzell Gartten bey dem Judenbiell (W.229), Mögeldorff (W.230), Zu Sanct Jobs (W.231) / Dimensions: 12,60 x 17,80 cm / Condition: Early outstanding, richly inked and luminous impressions, each on a full sheet of laid paper (18 x 26 cm) . Excellent condition with no folds, tears or stains. Old number in sepia ink in the upper right margin. A rare print series, from the uppermost rarity as a complete set in these outstanding proof states. / Literature: Druckgraphik MMerian AB 3.13, Landschaften aus der Umgebung von Nürnberg, M. Merian, 6 Bll., Wüthrich 226-231 (Proof state unknown to Wüthrich)--- (Even the finished states are very rare to find, only two complete sets recorded by Wühtrich and half a dozen incomplete sets) ----- Besides the Wüthrich catalogue raisonné, most of the information of this series is credited to the work by Katharina Krause: The Legitimation of Council Rule Through Vedute of the City and Territory. Se describes the importance of Nuremberg as a Lutheran imperial city that attracted many artists who came to Germany fled from Flanders and the Netherlands since the late sixteenth century either as religious refugees or for economic reasons. They brought invovations that resulted in this first print series with views of the Nürnberg environs. Only 10 years after the first Dutch examples which elevated the unspectacular surroundings of Haarlem into evidence of its newly achieved sovereignty as a theme of print series, artists began to draw motifs from the environs of Nürnberg in the mode of vedute. There were several existing templates for reproducing the Nürnberg landscape, and artists drew on Dutch series, such as the “Plaisante Plaetsen” by Claesz Vischer (1611–12), and his Brabant “Small Landscapes” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. The original drawings for this series of engravings were by Jan Brueghel the Younger , who had spent some days in Nürnberg. From the pool of sheets, the engraver and publisher Peter Isselburg, originally from Cologne, selected a total of six images, which he kept in a similar format to form a self-contained series. The execution of the prints is ascribed to Matthäus Merian the Elder. ---- One of the subject is Das Angersche Weiherhaus [The pond house of the Angerer family]. the Weiherhaus [pond house] of the Angerer family, which had been previously depicted by Dürer.The engraving shows the timbered house on a wooded island next to a pond whose smooth water surface reflects the buildings and the vegetation. In the distance, we see one of Nürnberg’s gate towers; the background is formed by a fisherman with a net, and a barge on its way to the island. The themes are the modest buildings themselves, the reflections in the water, the ambience of the cloudy sky, and the people who are going about their work. The caption on the page emphasizes that this is a depiction of a real place. The print pays tribute to a work by Dürer, the city’s most famous artist, whose works were already much sought after in the decades around 1600– but at the same time, cityscapes such as these reflected a more recent movement in the European market that focused interest on local environments. This new mode was also characterized by the accurate reproduction of the buildings embedded in their surroundings and collections of farmsteads and rural roadways, which were all identifiable real-world places. --- Another subject is The Hallersche Weiherhaus, located near St. Peter's Church, was destroyed in the Second World War. Lit.: 'Nürnberger Schau' 1941, issue 10, p. 247 with ill., it is the one with the man with a stick walking before a wooden fence that covers the complete print foreground from left to right. / Medium: Six etchings /Circa: Circa 1615-1616 2400

Jan Chalon - Four head studies following Rembrandt / Description: Four delicate portraits very close in style to Rembrandt. Jan Chalon was the brother of the female artiste Christina Chalon and the father-in -law of the publisher Christian Josi. Rembrandt was his great example and like his great master he developed a bold etching style aiming always aiming towards progression, not really following the influence of his Contemporains, and averse to commercial gain. He destroyed many of his work even before it was published if it did not fits his standards. The largest one is signed upper left: J Chalon invent J Chalon Fecit. Amongst the subjects: Bust of a young man with mid-length hair, slightly turned to the left, wearing a fur-lined coat. c.1788-1793 and an old man with large beard and cap very close to Rembrandt. / Dimensions: 8,20 x 6,20 the largest, 5,80 x 4,70 cm the smallest / Condition: Very good early impressions with much plate tone and still som ink in the plate borders and little scratches in the plate. With full plate borders and small margins on thin laid paper mounted with the left side on a collection sheet. / Literature: Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon (undescribed) / Medium: Four etchings with drypoint /Circa: Ca. 1788-1793 180

Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ disputing with the Doctors / Description: Christ Disputing with the Doctors: Small Plate (1630). / Dimensions: 8,90 x 6,70 cm / Condition: On medium weight laid paper. A very good impression with strong lines and good plate tone, guaranteed original. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (53.VI/VII) --- Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (20.III) ---- White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (66.III) / Medium: Etching with drypoint /Circa: 1630 1000

Rembrandt van Rijn, Study sheet with sick woman in bed, / Description: Study sheet with sick woman in bed. Etching made by Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669), 1639. References: New Hollstein Dutch 177 1(1), Bartsch 369 1(1) , Hollstein Dutch 369 1(1). Very good dark strong impression on thin laid paper with 2 mm margins and just on/in the right margin. In excellent condition. Collectors mark on the back: not known by lugt. / Dimensions: 13,5 cm x 15,1 cm / Condition: Very good dark strong impression on thin laid paper with 2 mm margins and just on/in the right margin. In excellent condition. / Literature: New Hollstein Dutch 177 1(1), First and only state, Bartsch 369 1(1) , Hollstein Dutch 369 1(1) / Medium: etching /Circa: 1633 2800

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Temple Of Salus On The Via D'Albano / Description: Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute su la via d'Albano, cinque miglia lontan da Roma, Series: Series: Vedute di Roma -- View of the so-called Temple of Salus on the Via d'Albano, outside Rome, Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Lettered as if a stone inscription at lower right with the title and 'l'opera con tutt' i suoi ornamenti è di terra cotta, è l Capitello A è composito a differenza di t[ut]ti gli altri'. At lower left 'Piranesi F.' Roman edition 'before' the number upper right corner. First or second state on four. On watermarked laid paper. The watermark near the middle fold is hard to disipher. / Dimensions: 41,10 x 45,60 cm / Condition: A very good impression of the first state on thick laid paper with watermark . Full margins. Flattened middle fold. Overall in excellent condition. / Literature: Wilton-Ely 1994 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings (204) --- Hind 1922 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a critical study (71.I or II / IV) --- Focillon 1918 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre (776) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1760-1778 600

Etienne Duperac - Pyramide Cestio / Description: Vestigi dell'Antichitá di Roma Raccolti et Ritratti in Perspettiva con Ogni Diligentia da Stefano Du Perac - 1575 Piramide CistioFrom the first edition of the series of prints etched by Etienne Du Pérac and published in Rome in 1575Publisher: Lorenzo Vaccari (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1575–1608).Du Pérac (1525-1604) was a French architect and garden designer who had studied engraving under Antonia Lafreri, to who's Speculum Magnificentiae he contributed. The prints were published in the same year as the set by Battista Pittoni. While Pittoni works closely to the work of Hieronymus Cock, Du Pérac shows his own designs. Du Pérac represents as no other the lively renewal and interest in sixteenth century Rome, his prints form a a key source for the state of the Roman monuments at that time. / Dimensions: 21,00 x 38,50 cm / Condition: Superb good inked impression with good plate tone. Full plate border and margins on laid paper. Excellent condition. / Literature: Etienne Dupérac (Etcher, engraver, painter, draughtsman, architect, garden designer, French c.1535? - 1604) He had studied engraving under Antonio Lafreri, to whose Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae he contributed.Etienne Duperac, a native of Bordeaux or Paris, he soon moved to Venice, where he learned the art of making various subjects by Titian, mainly for the publisher Giovanni Francesco Camocio.He arrived in Rome in 1559 where he devoted himself to the study of architecture and antiquities, with special attention to the works of Michelangelo. In Rome knows Onofrio Panvinio, archaeologist and antiquarian who influences him and introduced him to the study of Roman antiquities. Like all artists from Northern Europe, was fascinated by the majesty of the Roman ruins and decided to study them. The above representations of the monuments of Rome, such as those performed by Hieronymus Cock in 1550, were painted and embellished with elements of fantasy.The great importance of the views of Rome Duperac lies in the fact that they were represented with absolute precision archaeological and topographical, as to be now studied with great attention by scholars of archeology, monuments and sites as they often are now lost." Roma Rome Robert Dusmenil, Peintre Graveur Francais, vol. VIII, pp. 92 - 99, 1 - 40; Reed & Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Barocque, p. 83,84. 380 210He specialized in antiquities, maps and views and published his own work..""I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma raccolti et ritratti in perspettiva da Stefano Du Perac parisino"", first published in Rome in 1575 by Lorenzo Vaccari. The set, composed by 39 plates and 2 title. Etching with engraving, very good condition. Etienne Duperac, a native of Bordeaux or Paris, he soon moved to Venice, where he learned the art of making various subjects by Titian, mainly for the publisher Giovanni Francesco Camocio. He arrived in Rome in 1559 where he devoted himself to the study of architecture and antiquities, with special attention to the works of Michelangelo. In Rome knows Onofrio Panvinio, archaeologist and antiquarian who influences him and introduced him to the study of Roman antiquities. Like all artists from Northern Europe, was fascinated by the majesty of the Roman ruins and decided to study them. The above representations of the monuments of Rome, such as those performed by Hieronymus Cock in 1550, were painted and embellished with elements of fantasy. The great importance of the views of Rome Duperac lies in the fact that they were represented with absolute precision archaeological and topographical, as to be now studied with great attention by scholars of archeology, monuments and sites as they often are now lost." Roma Rome Robert Dusmenil, Peintre Graveur Francais, vol. VIII, pp. 92 - 99, 1 - 40; Reed & Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Barocque, p. 83,84. 376 215In 1574 URBIS ROMAE SCIOGRAPHIA EX ANTIQUIS MONVMENTIS ACCVRATISSIn 1575 he published VESTIGI DELL’ ANTICHITA DI ROMA. / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1575 180

Franciszek Smuglewicz - Domus Aurea fresco - by Marco Carloni, colored etching / Description: Impressive large handcoloured plate showing a room decoration in the 'Domus Aurea' of Titus in Rome, painted ceiling with grotesque decoration; with four embedded scenes with dancing and playing semi-nude figures. Part of a project launched under the title 'Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro interne Pitture' in 1775. The promoter and publisher was the antiquarian Ludovico Mirri; the draughtsman of the grotesques was Smugliewicz (Warsaw 1745-1807 Vilnius); Brenna drew the architectural settings; and Marco Carloni (1742-1796) was the engraver. The artists used their imaginations to supply supplements where the original painting had been lost. Hand-colored sheet following the colors of the original frescoes. Etching to be dated 1776-1778. / Dimensions: 50,50 x 56,00 cm / Condition: Good impression with full plate border and wide margins on a thick laid paper from the period with still some ink blur at the plate border. Flattened middle fold and occasional small tear in the outer margin. Overall very good. / Literature: Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro interne Pitture', second edition ----- See Francesca Guglielmini, 'Ludovico Mirri's Vestigia and publishing in XVIIIc Rome', Print Quarterly, XXXVIII 2021, pp.29-49. / Medium: Handcoloured etching /Circa: 1776-1778 600

Herman van Swanevelt - Pan and Syrinx / Description: Pan and Syrinx. Landscape with Pan at center left in pursuit of the nymph who looks back over her shoulder as she flees into the reeds, a pond at right and a tree-lined road at left Lettered on the rock at lower right: 'HVS'.This is a first state before any publishers address (de Rossi and later Carlo Losi) / Dimensions: 15,80 x 21,20 cm / Condition: Good sharp impression in top condition. / Literature: Hollstein 24.I Bartsch II.285.70 / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1629-1641 280

Nicolaes Berghem - The shepherd and the spinner / Description: The Shepherd and the Spinner. A shepherd playing the flute sitting on a fountain, a spinner standing in front of him with a dog to the right, several cows and sheep in the lower left corner; from a series of five prints showing animals.Signed in the lower right corner: "Berghem. f. i652" and Justus Dankers / Excudit." / Dimensions: 26,80 x 20,70 cm / Condition: Good condition. Watermarked laid paper. / Literature: Weigel 1843 297.8 Hollstein 8.V Dutuit 1881-5 I.35.8.V Bartsch V.259.8 / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1652 225

Monogrammist MF, Melchior Meier - Judgement of Midas / Description: Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgement of Midas; reverse copy after Melchior Meier (Hollstein 7); Apollo at center, holding a flaying knife in his left hand and the skin of Marsyas in his right hand; the flayed Marsyas hanging from a tree at right; Midas with the ears of an ass kneeling at left; satyrs and soldiers in background. With a tablet hanging in the tree upper right with MF monogram and date 1536. Etching after Melchior Meier by the Monogrammist MF. This work was made by MF between 1581 and 1620 based on the Meier work from circa 1580. The print here on auction is a later impression on vellum paper probably already 19th century. / Dimensions: 23,20 x 31,30 cm / Condition: Sharp black impression without stains or folds. The margins with occasional defect. Later impression. / Literature: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (7.II) ----- Nagler, 'Monogrammisten', IV, no.1802. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1581-1620 260

Leonardo De Vinci - Deformed Heads, By Wenceslaus Hollar / Description: The Leonardo da Vinci studies of deformed heads are famous. Here an old couple with deformed faces facing each other, the man at left with protruding chin and few teeth, wearing a cap, the woman at right with deformed mouth, her hair pleated and gathered in a ponytail. Etching after Leonardo da Vinci. Signed bottom middle 'Leonardo da Vinci invenit.' From a rare series previously attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar, but the attribution was rejected by Pennington and New Hollstein. See New Hollstein (Hollar) R118-122 for the series of deformed heads, about which little is known. They are very very close in technique and execution to the series etched by Wenceslaus Hollar Varie Figuræ et Probæ (New Hollstein, Hollar 737-750) but seem to differ when focusing more close by on the line style. These are not copies, no original by Hollar is known for this pair of figures. Rare. / Dimensions: 9,40 x 16,80 cm / Condition: Good sharp impression with full plate border and tread margins, more margin at bottom side. On a dense thin laid paper. Condition is very good with no folds, tears or stains. / Literature: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (R118) --- Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1598) / Medium: Etching /Circa: C.1645-1650 380

Judgement of Paris with Venus, Juno and Minerva, François Chauveau, Laurent de la Hyre / Description: Judgement of Paris with Venus, Juno and Minerva, rare etching made by François Chauveau (1613-1676), after a drawing of Laurent de la Hyre (1606-1656). Published by Nicolas Langlois in Paris with the privilege of the king. Good grey impression of this etching in good condition printed on laid paper with 2-4 cm margins. With a watermark. / Dimensions: 28,2 cm x 22,8 cm / Condition: Good grey impression of this rare etching in good condition printed on laid paper with 2-4 cm margins. With a watermark. / Literature: / Medium: etching /Circa: 1640-1676 325

Allegorical self-portrait by the painter Raymond La Fage / Description: Self portrait of LaFages. Hollstein 120 III (of III). Signed and inscribed in plate. Strong impression on laid paper, with margin around plate mark. 44 x 31 cm. After Raymond LaFage's allegoric self portrait in the form of Bacchus, with reference to his timely death in 1684 at the age of 28 years below image. / Dimensions: 44,00 x 31,00 cm / Condition: Good impression on watermarked laid paper. Excellent condition. / Literature: Hollstein 120 III (of III) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1700 400

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) - Port of Dordrecht / Description: Port of Dordrecht with moored ship, sailing and rowing boats; ramparts at left lined with trees, church and houses seen beyond; after Jan Peeters. 1651 Etching made by: Wenceslaus Hollar, after Jan Peeters I. From a series of six plates of ports etched by Hollar after various artists, first state published by Joannes Meyssens and second state by Cornelis Galle - see New Hollstein 1165-1170. / Dimensions: 15,80 x 22,20 / Condition: Good impression on rather chalky paper with letter watermark. Full plate border and margins, very good condition. / Literature: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (1166.II) --- Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (839.II) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1651 140

Rembrandt van Rijn, Bearded old man with tall fur hat and closed eyes, 1635 / Description: Bearded old man with tall fur hat and closed eyes. Etching, Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669), 1635. References: New Hollstein Dutch 148-2(4), Bartsch 290, Hollstein Dutch 290. Etching in excellent condition. Very good dark impression on laid paper, with 4 mm margins with lot of details. / Dimensions: 11,2 cm x 10,2 cm / Condition: Etching in excellent condition. Very good dark impression on laid paper, with 4 mm margins with lot of details. / Literature: New Hollstein Dutch 148-2(4), second state of four, Bartsch 290, Hollstein Dutch 290 / Medium: etching /Circa: 1635 2250

Frans Hals, Adriaen Matham - Portrait of Pieter Bor / Description: Portrait of Pieter Christiaensz Bor; bust-length turned to the right, facing the viewer, holding a quill in his right hand; within lettered oval. Engraving and etching made by Adriaen Matham after a lost painting of 1634 by Frans Hals, formerly in Rotterdam and destroyes in 1864. / Dimensions: 25,00 x 17,30 cm / Condition: Outstanding early impression in excellent condition. Guidelines for the text still visible. Watermarked laid paper and good margins. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (54) ----- Muller II 1853 / Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (555) ----- Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon (31) --- RKD Stuy: Frans Hals and his Workshop, 2023, Nr.C26 / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1629-1660 160

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Tempio della Tosse - First state / Description: View of the so-called Tempio della Tosse on the Via Tibertina, near Tivoli. Lettered as if a stone inscription at lower right with the title and still lwit the price: 'Presso l'Autore a paoli due e mezzo'. From the series: Vedute di Roma. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi from circa 1760-1778. Here in a first state on four, with the price, before any number. / Dimensions: 44,40 x 57,60 cm / Condition: A very good impression of the first state on thick laid paper with watermark . Full margins. Flattened middle fold. Overall in excellent condition. / Literature: Wilton-Ely 1994 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings 202 --- Hind 1922 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a critical study (69.I/IV) --- Focillon 1918 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre (774) ---- Hind notes that the Tempio della Tosse (the Temple of the Cough) is sometimes thought to be a tomb of the Turcia or Tossia family. / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1760-1778 600

Etching by Jacob Jordaens - Jupiter nourished by the goat Amaltheia. / Description: This is one of only seven etchings attributed to Jacob Jordaens himself. Jupiter nourished by the goat Amaltheia. Landscape with the infant Jupiter lying on the ground and suckling from the teats of a goat, a satyr holding the head and horn of the goat, another playing a pipe beyond, the nymph Adrastea sitting on the ground assisting the infant and steadying the goat. 1652 Etching made by Jacques Jordaens. first state before publisher's address. / Dimensions: 21,70 x 29,50 cm / Condition: Excellent early impression with still some ink smudge in the still square plate borders. Good condition with tiny tread margins around the plate border. Small 2 mm closed cut in left margin near top left corner. On laid paper with fools head with bell's watermark. --- / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (5.I) ----- There are only seven etchings attributed to Jacob Jordaens (Hollstein 1-3, 5-7 and 9), also described in D'Hulst catalogue (pp.132-136). Although these are all lettered with Jordaens as the designer ('inventor'), they are considered as also made by him. Lit.: R.-A. D'Hulst, 'Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), volume II: Drawings and Prints', Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1993, nos. B93-99. (Here B96) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1652 460

Matthäus Merian - Wirtemberg Castle - Unknown Proof state (RRRR) / Description: Proof state unknown to Wüthrich (!). Very atmospheric etching of the residence of the house of Württemberg near Stuttgard build in the 1520's. This etching (Wüthrich.529) in an extremely rare unfinished proof state preceding the first state, before adding of: 1. Three birds in the sky central left of the castle, 2. A stake on the castle wall lower rightr, 3 a shimney on the castles lower roof top at right, 4. two walkers on the path leading down from the castle gate. This excellent early impression before any number and still with square plate borders must be one of the very first impressions of this print and is of the uppermost rarity. The proof state was only printed in a few copies and probably no other has been preserved. (Wüthrich- 529). Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650), born in Basel, Switzerland moved to Oppenheim in 1617 and when the city of Oppenheim was destroyed in 1620 by fire during the Spanish occupation he moved back to Basel. Merian married the daughter of Theodor de Bry in 1617. In his early works in his twenties, he showed a great talent for free landscape etching after his own designs close to his contemporain Jan van de Velde but also influenced by Flemish artists such as the master of the small landscapes and he made even work after Jan Breughel the younger. The landscape art from his early period deserves more attention as it is far superior to his later work. Wütrich mentions: 'Because of the overly tight cross layers in the foreground, most of the known prints are very defective and have numerous blind spots. Clear prints are early prints and rare.' So a proof state like the one here on aucton is of the uppermost rarity and very valuable to enjoy in it's superb quality. RRRR / Dimensions: 13,60 x 17,00 cm / Condition: An early outstanding, richly inked and luminous impression on a full sheet of laid paper. Excellent condition with no folds, tears or stains. Old number in sepia ink in the upper right margin. A rare print, certainly in this very early outstanding printing condition. / Literature: Wüthrich 1966-1996 (Merian) - 529 - (proof state, preceding state I and II) RRRR / Medium: Etching /Circa: Circa 1620-1622 360