Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Fool with Church bell upside down - 1494 / Description: Narrenrede, nicht auf alle Reden achten - Nil curare detractiones hominum - Not paying attention to all talk - Of them that forceth or careth for the bacbytynge of lewde people. "Whether that a bell be hangyd or lye on grounde, If vnto the same a clapper lacke or fayle, The bell shall make but sympyll noyse or sounde, Though thou in it do hange a Foxys tayle, Right so backbyters that vse on men to rayle, Can nat greatly hurt them that lyue rightwysly, Wherfore it is foly theyr babblynge to set by." Woodcut made by the young Albrecht Durer in 1494 for Sebastian Brant's Stultifera navis - Das Narrenshiff. The Basel humanist Sebastian Brant described the sea journey of fools (representing the follies of human weakness and vice) to "Naragonia" the paradise of fools. The fine woodcut is the one commissioned for the first edition (in German) of 1494. This is one of the 75 of the 112 woodcuts now attributed to Dürer, who resided in Basel for a few months in 1494. "The woodcut illustrations created for the Das Narrenschiff are of immense density and tenseness. Since there was no iconographical tradition for this newly conceived text, the subjects and scenes of the illustrations had to be created entirely new. The images presented are of such convincing force that their equal in design had never before been seen" (A Heavenly Craft, p. 63). The woodcut here on auction from the Latin edition of 1511. / Dimensions: 11,70 x 8,50 cm / Condition: Very good black impression trimmed outside the borderline. Small Latin text letters on the backside. Overall very good condition. / Literature: Schramm 1152 - Rogner & Bernard 1360 / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1494 250
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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
Jan Saenredam - The Fool / Description: A first state of this rare engraving: A fool holding a staff. A jester leaning on a ledge, half-length, leering and pointing to his fool's staff; A jester smiles and points to his staff. The staff has a jester's head sticking out its tongue. At the back left a gatehouse and at the back right two cloaked women. In text line 'T'is om te lachen' (It's just a joke). First state before the double text line in two columns of German and French text of the third state. Engraving made by Jan Saenredam after the design drawing by Hendirck Goltzius. Signed in the plate: "HG Invent ... I.Sanredam Sculp". Saenredam was one of Goltzius most important masters and worked closely together with him, creating a major body of his work. / Dimensions: 25,50 x 18,00 cm / Condition: With handwritten collectors initials and reference line at bottom of text line. Outstanding good rich impression on a dense watermarked laid paper. Condition is excellent. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (123.I/III) --- New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (728.I/III) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.251.103) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1595 800
Pieter van Laer - A hunter with his hounds - 1636 / Description: A hunter with his hounds. A male figure at left and holding a staff, bending to stroke one of the seven dogs with his right hand, two dogs sleeping in lower left, a cat sleeping on a window-sill at upper right; first state before number; from a series of eight etchings called 'various Animals' made by Pieter van Laer in 1636. / Dimensions: 13,10 x 18,00 cm / Condition: Outstanding luminous early impression of the first state trimmed on the plate border with traces of tread margins. Very good condition with remains of former album tipping on the backside odf the four corners. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (6.I) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (I.9.6) --- Dutuit 1881-5 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes (V.38.6) / Medium: 0 /Circa: 1636 320
Hieronymus Wierix - Ignatius of Loyola healing of an epileptic / Description: Ignatius healing an epileptic; St Ignatius seen kneeling down and placing his hand over an epileptic man, seen lying on his stomach in a public square; various alarmed figures next to them including another Jesuit. From the series 'The Life of Ignatius of Loyola'. Signed: 'Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud' and 'Cum Gratia et Privilegio Piermans'.' Second state, while the first state (before the letter) is known in only one example. Original state, before the later repetition. / Dimensions: 10,40 x 6,45 cm / Condition: Brilliant luminous early impression, on a dense laid paper. Full plate border and good small margins. In an excellent untouched condition. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1497.II) --- Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1045) --- Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (791) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: Ca.1613 280
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
Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dominic Custos - Hieronymus Cock before his print shop in Antwerp / Description: Perspective view of a street in Antwerp, with on the corner the print shop of Hieronymus Cock ('Au Quatre Vents'). This is the first plate of a set of twenty plates showing perspective views of streets, palaces and interiors after designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries, The view is an idealized depiction of Cock's printing shop, with its sign 'Aux quatre vents'. The man standing in front is presumably Cock himself, with his wife sitting inside. (Volcxken Diercx) Aafter a design by Hans Vredeman de Vries. c.1560. A print engraved by Dominic Custos from around 1610 taken from inventions by H. Vredeman de Vries for his Scenographiae sive Perspectivae first published by Cock in 1560. Here a print from a rare to find same size series engraved in counterpart by Dominic Custos around 1610. / Dimensions: 20,80 x 25,80 cm / Condition: Excellent early impression, with still square plate borders and good plate tone on a full sheet of thin watermarked laid paper. Very good condition, fresh and untouched, Small smooth fold near bottom left corner. / Literature: For the original 1560 series: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (163) --- Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (31) ---- Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (206) ----- see: Joris van Grieken, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.nos.3 and 81. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: Circa 1610 360
Maerten de Vos, Hieronymus Wierix - Personification of Cruelty / Description: Impressive large engraving from a set of two plates about vice and vertue, the other one being Benevolence. Here: Cruelty a female personification offers bread and fish to a dog and a stone with a coiled snake to a child. Signed below left "M.D. VOS IN. [] HIERONIMUS .W.FE." and at right "W.V. haecht. compo. et excud". Engraving made by Hieronymus Wierix (1553-1619) in 1577 after a design by Maarten de Vos(1532-1603). This is a first state with the publishers address of Willem van Haecht (1527-1583) / Dimensions: 24,00 x 31,70 cm / Condition: Really excellent outstanding impression on watermarked laid paper. Condition is excellent / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1776.I) --- Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1399.I/II) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1577 600
Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dominic Custos - Renaissance palace with garden / Description: Architectural composition; an avenue of trees with deer at right, buildings including an obelisk, a campanile and a fountain of Neptune astride a dolphin at left; after a design by Hans Vredeman de Vries. A print engraved by Dominic Custos from around 1610 taken from inventions by H. Vredeman de Vries for his Scenographiae sive Perspectivae first published by Cock in 1560. Here a print from a rare to find same size series engraved in counterpart by Dominic Custos around 1610. / Dimensions: 20,80 x 25,80 cm / Condition: Excellent early impression, with still square plate borders and good plate tone on a full sheet of thin watermarked laid paper. Very good condition, fresh and untouched, Small smooth fold near bottom left corner. / Literature: The design drawing for this print is kept in the British Museum, inventory number 1946,0713.186 . New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (175) ---Hollllstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (43)----- see: Joris van Grieken, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.nos.3 and 81. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: Circa 1610 260
Albrecht Dürer - Christ at Emmaus - Ca. 1510 / Description: Meder 157 b. Woodcut from the Small Passion by Dürer. Original Dürer woodcut from an early edition without text, dating from circa 1544 -1589 based on the fragment of watermark in the paper ( Meder 220.a: 'Kleines Wappen von Kaufburen mit einfachen Sternen, as used in the 'Ehrenporte' published in 1559.) Christ at Emmaus, sitting in the centre of a table and breaking bread, with his disciples to both sides. Original woodcut from circa 1510 by Dürer from the small passion, his first major project, and today his most celebrated, depicting the final days of Christ’s life. / Dimensions: 12,70 x 9,80 cm / Condition: Excellent brilliant sharp and evenly printed well contrasted black impression with the gaps in bottom borderline as described for state b. Early edition well ahead of the Italian text edition. On the full sheet of lead paper measuring 19,50 x 15,00 cm. Tipped with left border on a laid paper support sheet. Excellent untouched condition with no folds, tear or stain / Literature: Meder 157 (b). With the gaps in the border as described for this state. ---- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.120.48) --- Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.296.92) Woodcut Ca. 1510 / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1510 1800
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
Anthonie Wierix, Maerten de Vos, The Crucifixion, First state / Description: Passion of Christ: The Crucifixion; three soldiers seen nailing and tying Christ to the Cross; Pilate on a horseback giving orders to two soldiers; in a decorative border with animals and flowers including a rose. Engraving made by Antonius Wierix (1552-1604) after: Maarten de Vos (1532-1603), published by: Eduard van Hoeswinckel (fl. 1570s-died 1583). A first state on five before the text, signatures and the number. The border reminds the decoration of hand painted miniatures, especially the ones in the style of Bruges from 15th century. The mixture of animals and flowers is very attractive. / Dimensions: 19,50 x 16,20 cmm / Condition: Excellent brilliant early impression of the first state before any text or number, with full plate border and tread margins at three sides, on plate border at bottom, on a dense clearly watermarked laid paper. Very good condition with a few faded spots on the group of soldiers middle right. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (196.I) -----Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (134. I/V) -----Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (331) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: before 1583 400
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
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
Gilles Rousselet, Guido Reni - Hercules on a burning Pyre / Description: "Hercules Sitting on a Burning Pyre on Mt. Enta" - Hercule se iettant dans un bucher allumé sur le mont oeta - From a series of prints with as subject : The Labours of Hercules printmaker: Gilles Rousselet (Signed on print) showing a painting by Guido Reni (mentioned in text line) / Dimensions: 43,50 x 30,00 cm / Condition: Very good impression with margins on a large sheet of watermarked laid paper. Good condition. / Literature: LeBlanc 53-56Gilles Rousselet (printmaker; French; Male; 1610 - 1686)Engraver, worked first for Le Blond from 1630, then for Mariette from 1638. Favored engraver of Charles Le Brun.BibliographyMariette, Abecedario, V pp.54-9V.Meyer, PQ II 1985, pp.299-308 (inventory after his death)V Meyer, 'Nouvelles de l'Estampe', no.82/3 (1985), pp.6-18 (no catalogue)V.Meyer, 'L'Oeuvre gravé de GR', Paris 2004 (409 nos) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1620-1670 150
Ambrosius Francken, Hans Collaert - Story of David and Saul - Early first states / Description: The complete series in four engravings + title cartouche titled: "Historia Davidis et Saulis: Ambrosio ab Herentaels Inventore fol: 4". Not only the impressions in first state come in outstanding excellent early impressions, the presence of the smaller title cartouche (10,10 x 14,20 cm) is very rare to find. / Dimensions: 20,50 x 28,00 cm / Condition: Excellent early impressions with a lot of plate tone. Full plate border and good margins. Moderate age toning of the paper. Overall a good uniform printed complete set in very good condition. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (44-47.I) + title / Medium: Five engravings /Circa: 1579 400
Hieronymus Wierix - St Michael Triumphing Over The Dragon / Description: St Michael triumphing over the dragon; St Michael, holding a spear and a shield, seen standing on a dragon, piercing his mouth with the spear; behind, to right, the war in heaven between angels and demons. Signed: 'Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud' and 'Cum Gratia et Privilegio Buschere. Below image the Latin sentence: 'QUIS UT DEUS?' which means 'who (is) like God', and is the literal translation of the name Michael. Here a first and only state before the later repetition A and B. / Dimensions: 8,90 x 6,30 cm / Condition: Brilliant luminous early impression, on a dense laid paper. Full plate border and mostly tread margins. Small remain of album tipping on the backside of the upper right corner. Overall in an excellent untouched condition. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1076) --- Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1263) --- Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1051) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: Ca.1619 380
Master Of Delft - Christ healing the sick of Bethesda / Description: Four scenes about the healing of the sick in Bethesda. Bottom left: the sick man in bed. Bottom right: Christ heals the man and commands him to get up. Top right: the healed man rises from his bed. Middle: Angel stirs the water and man takes his bath. Man carries his sleeping mat. This is a full page incunabula woodcut, from a very early edition of Ludolphus de Saxonia, "Dat Boeck vanden leven ons lief heeren Ihesu Christi". The first edition was published in 1487 in Antwerp, followed by the 1488 edition in Delft, 1495 and 1499 in Zwolle and again in Antwerp in 1510. The woodcut here on auction is attributed to the second master of Delft, alias the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines) and dated 1480-1500. The woodcut was already used in the edition of 22 May 1488. In fact the fresh impression still with complete intact borderlines makes it very plausible our woodcut belongs to the early edition of 22 May 1488. / Dimensions: 17,50 x 14,60 cm / Condition: Excellent impression with unbroken woodcut borderlines tipped with corners on a support sheet. Nice period hand colouring. Gothic Dutch letterpress on the backside in two columns. / Literature: Conway 1884 - (21.12:7) --- "The guilder compass" 1951. Botke, K. --- Prof. Henri Defoer, history of the woodcuts from the Ludolphus editions. ( Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 24/2017) / Medium: Coloured woodcut /Circa: 1480-1503 260
Maarten de Vos, Anthony Wierix - Story of Samson (7) / Description: A complete set of seven plates on the 'Story of Samson'. Design drawings by Maarten de Vos, engravings by Anthony Wierix. Some spectacular scenes with Samson fighting the lion , Samson holding the doors of the city Gaza, Samson's hair cut by Deliah and Samson breaking out of the temple of the Philistines. A most enjoyable series, here the complete set of eight prints in good impressions sighed Visscher exc., Anto. Wierix.fec, M. de Vos. inve. on the first plate / Dimensions: 19,50 x 27,80 cm / Condition: Good impressions with plate tone on watermarked laid paper with full palte border and wide margins. Excellent homogenious set in very good condition. / Literature: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (91-97 ) --- Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (24-30 III/IV and III/III) ---Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (90-96) ---New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (102-108) --- On this series see Hans Mielke, 'Der Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti des GdJ', in 'Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1975, pp.29-83, see n. 18, p. 79. / Medium: Engravings /Circa: 1585 750
Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dominic Custos - Renaissance Palace / Description: Perspective study with porticoed courtyard and fountain. A print by D. Custos from around 1610 taken from inventions by H. Vredeman de Vries for his Scenographiae sive Perspectivae first published by Cock in 1560. Here a print from a rare to find same size series engraved in counterpart by Dominic Custos around 1610. / Dimensions: 20,80 x 25,80 cm / Condition: Excellent early impression, with still square plate borders and good plate tone on a full sheet of thin watermarked laid paper. Very good condition, fresh and untouched, Small smooth fold near bottom left corner. / Literature: One copy traced Museo Diocesano Tridentino (Trento) --- For the original 1560 series see: Joris van Grieken, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.nos.3 and 81. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: Circa 1610 260
Michel Wolgemut (1434-1519) - Pentecost - 1493 / Description: Old colored woodcut from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493. Saint Mary sitting on a throne surrounded by the apostles. Maria has a book on her lap. The Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, is depicted under the canopy of Mary's throne. The wood blocks were designed by Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their assistants, including the young Albrecht Dürer, who was apprenticed to Wolgemut at the time. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, godfather of Dürer. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was working in the workshop in the years 1486-1489 when many of the early designs for the Chronicle were made he might be involved. / Dimensions: 16,50 x 11,20 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. With the original Latin letterpress above and on the backside of the woodcut from the first edition. / Literature: Liber Chronicarum, here a first edition , printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493 in old coloring. The luxury editions in old coloring are mentioned in literature and were of the most expensive. / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1493 320
Michel Wolgemut (1434-1519) - Martyrdom Of S. Jacob Minor - 1493 / Description: Old colored woodcut from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493. The apostle Jacobus Minor, James the Lesser died a martyr's death when he was thrown from the roof of the temple, after which they stoned him and beat him to death. The wood blocks were designed by Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their assistants, including the young Albrecht Dürer, who was apprenticed to Wolgemut at the time. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, godfather of Dürer. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was working in the workshop in the years 1486-1489 when many of the early designs for the Chronicle were made he might be involved. / Dimensions: 14,00 x 10,60 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. Mounted on a collection sheet. With the original Latin letterpress above and on the backside of the woodcut from the first edition. / Literature: Liber Chronicarum, here a first edition , printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493 in old coloring. The luxury editions in old coloring are mentioned in literature and were of the most expensive. / Medium: Colored /Circa: 1493 250
Philips Galle (1537-1612) - The Falcon Hunt / Description: Selected outstanding impression of the first state of one of the prints from Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium: Falconry; a company of falconers, including a gentleman and a lady on horseback, gather by a bridge; beyond, falcons, aided by dogs, attack herons; in the distance, two ladies sit under a parasol and spectate, with a town visible on the horizon beyond. Engraving after de designs of Jan van der Straet made by Philips Galle. First state before the number. / Dimensions: 21,20 x 28,20 cm / Condition: Outstanding impression in excellent condition. Wide margined laid paper with Antwerp Hand watermark. / Literature: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (446.I) --- Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (693.65) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1578 320
Michel Wolgemut (1434-1519) - The Crucifixion - 1493 / Description: Old colored woodcut from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493. The crucifixion of Jesus in the 34th year of his life with Mary and John at the foot of the cross. Woodcut from the nativity and life of Christ, folio XCV verso. The wood blocks were designed by Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their assistants, including the young Albrecht Dürer, who was apprenticed to Wolgemut at the time. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, godfather of Dürer. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was working in the workshop in the years 1486-1489 when many of the early designs for the Chronicle were made he might be involved. / Dimensions: 9,00 x 7,20 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. With the original Latin letterpress above and on the backside of the woodcut from the first edition. / Literature: Liber Chronicarum, here a first edition , printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493 in old coloring. The luxury editions in old coloring are mentioned in literature and were of the most expensive. / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1493 200
Maerten de Vos, Johannes Wierix, Complete set of 6 engravings, The ages of Man presented by Building styles. Complete set. / Description: Complete set of 6 engravings, The six ages of man symbolized by the building orders. Six engravings made by Johannes Wierix after drawings of Vredeman de Vries. Composita: Man at the age of 1-16 years. Corinthia: Man at the age 16-32 years. Ionica: Man at the age of 32-48 years. Dorica: Man at the age of 48 - 64. Tuscana: Man at the age of 64-80 years. Ruin: Man at the age of 80 till death. References: Composita: Hollstein Dutch 1988-1(3) first state, Corinthia: 1(3) first state, Ionica: only state, Dorica: Hollstein Dutch 1991-1(3) First state, Tuscana: Hollstein Dutch 1992-1(2) First state, Ruin: Hollstein Dutch 1993 1(2) First state. All six in good condition. All printed on thin laid paper. Composita and Corinthia on the margins, images are complete. Dorica and Ionica with 1 cm margins and Tuscana and Ruin with 2 mm margins. Nice complete set. Watermarks: Plate 1, plate 2, plate 3 and plate 4: a gothic P, Plate 5 and 6: a good watermark. / Dimensions: 21,0 cm x 27,0 cm / Condition: All six in good condition. All printed on thin laid paper. Composita and Corinthia on the margins, images are complete two tiny tears restored not disturbing.. Dorica and Ionica with 1 cm margins, excellent and Tuscana small restoration on top not disturbing and Ruin with 2 mm margin, excellent. Nice complete set. / Literature: Hollstein Dutch 1988-1(3) first state, Corinthia: 1(3) first state, Ionica: only state, Dorica: Hollstein Dutch 1991-1(3) First state, Tuscana: Hollstein Dutch 1992-1(2) First state, Ruin: Hollstein Dutch 1993 1(2) First state. / Medium: complete set of six engravings /Circa: 1577 2750
Hieronymus Wierix, Otto Van Veen, Joan Baptista Vrients, The entombment / Description: The entombment. Large rare engraving made by Hieronymus Wierix (1553-1619) after a drawing/painting of Otto Van Veen (1540-1619) published by Johannes Baptista Vrints I (1552-1610) in Antwerp ca 1563-1610.Hollstein Dutch 384 1(2) first state of two, Mauquoy-Hendrickx 380 1(2) first state of two. In excellent condition. Superb early dark impression of the first state engraving with the ruling lines to engrave the text clearly visible. Engraving of a high quality. With a good watermark. / Dimensions: 30,2 cm x 22,7 cm / Condition: In excellent condition. Superb early dark impression of the first state engraving with the ruling lines to engrave the text clearly visible. Engraving of a high quality. With a good watermark. / Literature: Hollstein Dutch 384 1(2) first state of two, Mauquoi-Hendrickx 380 1(2) first state of two. / Medium: engraving /Circa: 1563-1610 950
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Of Lust and Bodely Desire - 1494 / Description: Narr und Wollust - De voluptate corporali - Of pleasure seeking - Of bodely pleasour or corporall voluptuosyte. "Wanton wastfull and vayne voluptuosyte, Oft blyndeth attysynge vnto inconuenyence, Many that ar rude, for theyr symplycyte, And them as shepe sleeth for all theyr innocence, But other some it kepyth with myght and violenceAs bulles bounde sure to endure great care, And other as byrdes it tangleth in hir snare " Woodcut made by the young Albrecht Durer in 1494 for Sebastian Brant's Stultifera navis - Das Narrenshiff. The Basel humanist Sebastian Brant described the sea journey of fools (representing the follies of human weakness and vice) to "Naragonia" the paradise of fools. The fine woodcut is the one commissioned for the first edition (in German) of 1494. This is one of the 75 of the 112 woodcuts now attributed to Dürer, who resided in Basel for a few months in 1494. "The woodcut illustrations created for the Das Narrenschiff are of immense density and tenseness. Since there was no iconographical tradition for this newly conceived text, the subjects and scenes of the illustrations had to be created entirely new. The images presented are of such convincing force that their equal in design had never before been seen" (A Heavenly Craft, p. 63). The woodcut here on auction from the Latin edition of 1511. / Dimensions: 11,70 x 8,50 cm / Condition: Very good black impression trimmed outside the borderline. Small Latin text letters on the backside. Overall very good condition. / Literature: Schramm 1161 - Rogner & Bernard 1368 / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1494 250
Albrecht Durer - Christ before Pilate / Description: Meder 140 (a-c/d). Woodcut from the Small Passion by Dürer. Original Dürer woodcut from an early edition without text, dating from circa 1544 -1589 based on the fragment of watermark found in the paper, watermark similar to the 'Kleines Wappen von Kaufburen mit einfachen Sternen =Meder Watermark 220.a, as used in the 'Ehrenporte' published in 1559.) Original woodcut from circa 1509-1511 by Dürer from the small passion, his first major project, and today his most celebrated, depicting the final days of Christ’s life. / Dimensions: 12,70 x 9,70 cm / Condition: Excellent brilliant sharp and evenly printed well contrasted black impression. Early impression Meder 140 (a-c/d), Before the damage to the right corner as described for Meder d but with the gap in the borderline bottom left corner. Early edition well ahead of the Italian text edition. On the full sheet of lead paper measuring 19,50 x 15,00 cm. Tipped with left border on a laid paper support sheet. Excellent untouched condition with no folds, tear or stain / Literature: Meder 140 (a-c/d) ---Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.120.31) --- Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.295.75) Woodcut Ca. 1509-1511. / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1509-1511 1500
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
Anthony Wierix - Rulers of the Holy Roman Empire - 1593 / Description: Ordines Sacri Romani Imp: from Ottone III Instituti". Issued in Abraham Ortelius: ' Theatrum orbis terrarum'. In the top row are the Archbishops of Trier, Cologne and Mainz, Emperor Otto III, the King of Bohemia, the Count of the Palatinate, the Duke of Saxony and the Margrave of Brandenburg with their coats of arms. - The dukes, counts and non-noble classes follow in 5 rows. Old colored Copper engraving from 2 plates, each approximately 37 x 52 cm here assembled in one large sheet. First state with the publishers address of Gerard de Jode. / Dimensions: 74,50 x 51,50 cm / Condition: Beautiful old colored sheet on laid paper with full plate border and two centimeter margins. The horizontal and vertical middle fold enforced from the backside and covered with thin japan paper. Some small closed tears in the wide white margins, bottom corner slight crease. Beautiful old colored impressive print. / Literature: Mauquoy-Hendrickx III.1, 1983 (I/II) ----- Alvin 1830 ----- Thieme/Becker XXXV, 537 (biography) ----- Van der Krogt III B, ----- Portr:HRE/1:32 and 2:32 31:651/52 / Medium: Handcoloured engraving /Circa: 1590-1593 800
Bernard van Someren (1572-1632) - Saint Simon - RRR / Description: St Simon the Canaanite, half-length seen in profile , reading a book, a saw at right. Circular plate signed 'B de Suemeren fe.et ex a Bos' and lettered around the impression: "S. Simon Chananaeus Apost:". Plate of a series of Christ with The Apostles and St Paul. Extremely rare engraving by the Flemish, Antwerp born artist Bernard van Someren (1572-1632). Only three engravings known to Hollstein, including a Saint Jude similar to our print. This one unknown to Hollstein. / Dimensions: diameter 14,80 cm / Condition: Very good inked impression with nice plate tone and many scratches in the plate still visible as only seen on very early impressions. On fragmentary watermarked laid paper. The print is on a little square sheet of 18,00 by 18,50 cm and has full plate border and wide margins. Small tear in middle left margin, margins occasionally soiled but in a nice authentic untouched condition. / Literature: Hollstein unknown ----- In counterpart to the series by Zacharias Dolendo after Jacques de Gheyn II from 1596. ----- Barend van Someren (1572–1632) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who after training and working in Antwerp moved to Rome. He was also active as an art dealer, publisher and innkeeper. Van Someren was born in Antwerp and the brother of Paul van Somer I. He trained in his hometown Antwerp with Filips Lisaert the Younger. He traveled to Rome in 1600 were he worked in the workshop of Aert Mijtens. He left Rome for Amsterdam in 1602 and operated an inn in Amsterdam. The Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer stayed in this inn when he first arrived in the Dutch Republic in 1625. He is reported to have painted history and landscape paintings but no extant paintings by him are known. A few prints by his hand are portraits of religious and historical figures such as the Judas Taddeüs. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1590-1630 300
Christ among the doctors, Caravaggio, Theodore Vercruys / Description: Christ among the doctors, after a painting of Caravaggio (1571-1610). Large engraving made by Theodore Vercruys (Dutch, 1680-1739) in 1707-1739. Rare engraving, First state before the text "Fran. Petrucci del.". One same engraving found with this text in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Engraving in good condition, printed on laid paper with narrow margins. Borders mounted on another paper. Good impression. With a good watermark. / Dimensions: 26,5 cm x 38,8 cm / Condition: Rare engraving. In good condition, printed on laid paper with narrow margins. Borders mounted on another paper. Good impression. With a good watermark, / Literature: / Medium: engraving /Circa: 1707-1739 350
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
Bernard van Someren (1572-1632) - Saint Paul - RRR / Description: St Paul, half-length slightly turned to left reading a book and holding a sword in his right arm;. Lettered around the impression: "S. Pavlvs servvs Iesv. Christi. Vocatvs Apos". Twelfth plate of a series of Christ with The Apostles and St Paul. Extremely rare engraving by the Flemish, Antwerp born artist Bernard van Someren (1572-1632). Only three engravings known to Hollstein, including a Saint Jude similar to our print. This one unknown to Hollstein. / Dimensions: diameter 15,30 cm / Condition: Very good inked early impression with nice plate tone, on fragmentary watermarked laid paper. The print is on a little square sheet of 18,00 by 18,50 cm and has full plate border and wide margins. Margins occasionally soiled and with some folds but in a nice authentic untouched condition. / Literature: Hollstein unknown ----- In counterpart to the series by Zacharias Dolendo after Jacques de Gheyn II from 1596. ----- Barend van Someren (1572–1632) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who after training and working in Antwerp moved to Rome. He was also active as an art dealer, publisher and innkeeper. Van Someren was born in Antwerp and the brother of Paul van Somer I. He trained in his hometown Antwerp with Filips Lisaert the Younger. He traveled to Rome in 1600 were he worked in the workshop of Aert Mijtens. He left Rome for Amsterdam in 1602 and operated an inn in Amsterdam. The Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer stayed in this inn when he first arrived in the Dutch Republic in 1625. He is reported to have painted history and landscape paintings but no extant paintings by him are known. A few prints by his hand are portraits of religious and historical figures such as the Judas Taddeüs. / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1590-1630 300
Italian 16thC. - The Ancient Campidoglio in Rome - C. 1553 / Description: Speculum Romanae Magnificentia - Reconstructed view of the ancient Campidoglio in Rome. This large engraving with etching was first published by Antonio Salamanca circa 1553-1563. There are still traces of the erased publishers address of Salamanca on the road surface before the bottom right building. Here in a later edition with the publishers address of Gio.Jacomo Rossi at bottom middle of the square. For an example with Salamanca's address see THE MET, inventory number 402867. For an example with de Rossi's address see British Museum 1950,0325.1.38. / Dimensions: 27,00 x 40,80 cm / Condition: A good silvery impression on a large sheet of laid paper with flattened middle fold and good margins. In good condition. / Literature: Reference for the 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae': In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These images were calculated to appeal to the taste for classical antiquity that fueled the cultural event we call the Renaissance. After Lafreri published a title page in the mid-1570s, collections of these prints came to be known as the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Tourists and other collectors who bought prints from Lafreri made their own selections and had them individually bound. Over time, Lafreri's title page served as starting point for large and eclectic compilations, expanded and rearranged by generations of collectors. / Medium: Engraving, etching /Circa: 1553-1660 420
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACEInsert (14" x 36")Fine+ Folded; Artwork by Joseph Smith Universal International, 1953This folded sci-fi insert does have pinholes in all the corners but is very lovely, and the colors are bright.Universal's first-ever 3D film was this sci-fi horror, in which a meteorite crashes in Arizona and is revealed to be a spaceship containing shape-shifting alien monsters that have infiltrated the nearby town of Sand Rock.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
SANTA FE TRAILPost-War Italian 2-Fogli (39" x 54")Fine- Folded; Artwork by Alfredo Capitani Warner Bros. , 1949This fabulous rendering of the stars is incomparable, and this poster is the first time it has been offered in an auction in many years or even decades.There are pinholes around the borders and a few in the image. There is also tempera paint on the verso. This is a perfect restoration candidate.Santa Fe Trail is an American Western/War film from 1940 directed by Academy Award winner Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film tells the story of two West Point graduates stationed at Fort Leavenworth in 1854, who encounter an abolitionist murderer and find themselves competing for the love of a woman.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
CARTER THE GREATEight Sheet (80" x 104")Very Fine- on Linen Otis Litho, c. 1927This fabulous eight sheet is one of three featured in this auction. In each picture, Carter, the Great, works his magic as demons, skeletons, and witches look on.There are two punctures in the T and R of Carter. There has been some separation of the fold lines, which have been repaired. Carter the Great was born Charles Joseph Carter, an American stage magician. His first appearance as a magician occurred when he was just ten years old and dubbed "Master Charles Carter, the Original Boy Magician." He toured the world performing magic, and upon his passing at age 61, his son carried on "Carter the Great's" legacy.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
WHITE ZOMBIELobby Card (11" x 14")Very Fine- United Artists, 1932Lobby cards for this early sound horror effort are challenging to find, and this one, picturing Lugosi, is fabulous.Minor touch-ups to pinholes in all four corners. There is a small tear in the top center edge.Considered the first film dealing with zombies, this classic horror film stars the top legend of the genre, Bela Lugosi. As voodoo doctor Murder Legendre, Lugosi is showcased on this card along with his legions of zombies and his client Beaumont (Robert Frazer), whom he has double-crossed.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
CREEPSHOWOne Sheet (27" x 41" )Very Fine+ Folded; Artwork by Joann Daley Warner Bros., 1982Of the two style posters created for the release of the film, this with Joanna Daley artwork is often cited as the best.Minor fold wear and light tanning around the border.Horror legends Stephen King and George A. Romero teamed up to create this anthology of five EC Comics-inspired tales of terror, Night of the Living Dead creator's first collaboration with King.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTERSJapanese B2 (20" x 28.5")Very Fine- Rolled Toho, 1965This is a beautiful country-of-origin poster for the first release of this Japanese Kaiju film.There is some minor edge wear to the upper edge. This poster has faint fold lines but is now rolled.An essential film in the development of the Godzilla series, this movie marks the point at which Godzilla ceases to be a world-threatening menace and starts to become a giant protector of the Earth. This film, in which Godzilla teams up with Rodan to battle King Ghidorah, a monster under the control of hostile aliens, is as exciting as any movie in the series.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
STAR WARS: THE FIRST TEN YEARSOne Sheet (27" x 41")Very Fine+ Rolled 20th Century Fox, 1987This poster has only some minor crimping along the left edge but is otherwise beautiful. George Lucas' ground-breaking space opera defied all expectations to change the film industry forever. Inspired by Flash Gordon serials, Westerns, samurai films, and World War II movies, Lucas crafted a new, hugely popular mythology in "A galaxy far, far away" while setting a new standard for visual effects.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
JAMES BOND: DR. NOOne Sheet (27" x 41"); Yellow Smoke StyleFine+ on Linen; Artwork by Mitchell Hooks United Artists, 1962There have been some noticeable touch-ups along the fold lines and borders, but only on the background, not the image itself. The first James Bond movie (based on the sixth book in writer Ian Fleming's series) stars Sean Connery, who remains widely viewed as the best-ever 007. It also gave Ursula Andress, as shell diver Honey Ryder, one of cinema's most memorable entrances.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
JAMES BOND: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICESubway (44.5" x 59.25); Style CVery Fine+ Rolled; Artwork by Frank McCarthy and Robert McGinnis United Artists , 1967Perhaps the most famous of the five subway styles for this extensive campaign, Style C features James Bond in one of his favorite predicaments with women!Only minor edge wear is visible on this poster.With a script by Roald Dahl, the fifth James Bond movie was the first to depart drastically from its Ian Fleming-penned source material. Its highlights include a hollowed-out volcano villain base (designed by Ken Adam) and Donald Pleasance's acidly delicious portrayal of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
HORROR OF DRACULAOne Sheet (27" x 41" ); Blue PrintingVery Fine- on Linen Universal, 1958This one sheet to the great Hammer horror revival was printed in two different colors for each printing. The more more common is the green version. This is the much more scarce blue version.The poster has been professionally restored to linen, and there are some small bits of airbrushing around borders. The first film in the series of gothic Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, Horror of Dracula has become iconic thanks to Lee's dark and brooding sexuality as the famous bloodsucker.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
GHOSTBUSTERSOne Sheet (27" x 41"); Teaser Style Mint Folded Columbia, 1984With little to no wear from handling, this poster is in mint condition.Massively successful horror comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as New York ghost hunters. The first comedy to have a significant visual effects budget was a gamble that paid off, sparking sequels, comic books, a TV cartoon, videogames, and a reboot.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
THE VERDICTItalian 2-Fogli (39" x 55")Very Fine- Folded; Artwork by Luigi Martinati Warner Bros., 1949This magnificent large Italian-format poster puts all the US posters to shame. The domestic paper was printed in photographic three-color. This is the stunning Luigi Martinati artwork of the three stars.There is heavy cross-fold and fold wear with some faint tanning around folds. And slight paper loss in some folds.In one of their nine films together, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are joined by Joan Lorring in director Don Siegel's first feature-length film.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
DESTRY RIDES AGAINOne Sheet (27" x 41"); Style AFine+ on Linen Universal, 1932This is the first time we've seen this poster come to auction. Tom Mix made only eight films for Universal, the last of his career. This is one of two styles. The portrait style has come to market, but this style is different. This poster has been lovingly restored with minor touch-ups to the yellow background, folds, and airbrushing around the borders.Destry Rides Again is a 1933 American film directed by Benjamin Stoloff. This Western comedy stars Tom Mix and Claudia Dell. The hero Destry is framed and found guilty and seeks revenge once he's out of prison.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
GHOSTBUSTERSLobby Card Set of (8) (11" x 14")Near Mint Columbia, 1984These cards are clean and in near-mint condition, with only minor bits of wear from handling.Massively successful horror comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as New York ghost hunters. The first comedy to have a significant visual effects budget was a gamble that paid off, sparking sequels, comic books, a TV cartoon, videogames, and a reboot.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
HELLO CHEYENNEOne Sheet (28" x 41")Very Fine- on Linen Fox, 1928This is a beautiful and rare stone litho image of the excellent Western star Tom Mix's drama.Before restoration, this gorgeous stone litho had lower border wear and some moisture staining from the lower border into the film title, which has been airbrushed. Touch-ups to the X in Mix, some fold wear, and sporadic border airbrushing have also been done.Tom Mix (1880 -1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He was one of Hollywood's first Western stars and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
SUNNY SIDE UPThree Sheet (41" x 81")Fine on Linen Fox , 1929Billed as the screen's first all-talking, singing, dancing, and musical comedy, this is the first time we have seen this art-deco delight. It is a gorgeous stone litho creation to advertise the two reigning stars of Fox Studio's roster, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Together, they starred in a dozen fan favorites from Fox from 1927 to 1932., This film is their third.Before linen backing, some paper was lost near the folds and around the borders. There has also been airbrushing to the white and red fields. Sunny Side Up is an American musical from 1929 directed by David Butler. It stars Academy Award-winner Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, and Marjorie White. A young lady who hails from modest means lives in a shared apartment in New York where she pretends to be wealthy to impress a Southampton heir.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
REBECCASwedish One Sheet (27.5" x 39.5" )Very Fine Rolled Svensk Filmindustri, R-1949This poster has some minor edge wear and some crimping in the bottom right corner. Alfred Hitchcock's first American movie was perhaps the biggest critical success of his long career, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic mystery novel, Rebecca. The film was nominated for a stunning total of eleven Academy Awards and took the Best Picture award. It garnered Best Actor and Best Actress nominations for Laurence Olivier, a young Joan Fontaine, and a Best Director nomination for Hitch himself.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
THE SEARCHERSItalian 2-Fogli (39.5" x 55")Very Fine on Linen; Artwork by Adelchi Serafini Warner Bros., 1956This Italian poster showcases the artwork of Adelchi Serafini depicting John Wayne looking over Natalie Wood as an Indian maiden. It is one of the finest images created for the film.Before restoration, the poster had pinholes in the background and slight chipping in the borders. Touchup work has been done to the folds.Among the finest films ever produced, John Ford's The Searchers redefined the American Western and turned John Wayne and Natalie Wood into two of Hollywood's most famous stars. Known for its epic vistas and complex storytelling, the film was one of the first 25 films ever added to the Library of Congress for its impact on global culture.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACEFrench Grande (46.5" x 62" )Very Fine- Folded; Artwork by Roger Soubie Universal, 1953The colors of this poster are still bright and vibrant, but there is some chipping and tanning around the edge. Universal's first-ever 3D film was this sci-fi horror, in which a meteorite crashes in Arizona and is revealed to be a spaceship containing shape-shifting alien monsters that have infiltrated the nearby town of Sand Rock.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEINLobby Card (11" x 14")Fine+ Universal, 1935This lobby card has touch-ups to the edge of the image and border art. There are also some minor touch-ups to the image, with some small spots of airbrushing. It appears in brilliant condition.Many considered this film the ultimate horror classic of Universal Studios' Golden Age. This follow-up to the 1931 hugely popular Frankenstein proved that sequels were sometimes films of lesser quality than the original. Four years after the first film, Universal persuaded director James Whale to return along with actors Boris Karloff and Colin Clive to continue the story. This lovely card depicts the moment Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius make their final preparations to bring the Monster's Mate to life.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
THE FALLEN SPARROWFirst Post-War Release Italian 2-Fogli (39" x 55" )Very Fine Folded; Artwork by Giorgio Olivetti RKO, 1947Pinholes around the borders, slight outer fold wear, otherwise in excellent condition. The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 noir spy thriller directed by Richard Wallace and stars John Garfield and Maureen O'Hara. Is a mysterious woman a Nazi spy, or is she just an enigma? Meanwhile, a former prisoner vows to find the killer of a police lieutenant who helped him escape.This lot will be auctioned on Friday, April 19th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 18th.
JAMES BOND: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICEOne Sheet (27" x 41"); Style AVery Fine- Folded; Artwork by Frank McCarthy & Robert McGinnis United Artists , 1967A poster with light fold and edge wear, general scattered crimping, especially in the corners and pinholes, and staple marks in the borders. With a script by Roald Dahl, the fifth James Bond movie was the first to depart drastically from its Ian Fleming-penned source material. Its highlights include a hollowed-out volcano villain base (designed by Ken Adam) and Donald Pleasance's acidly delicious portrayal of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.
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