GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten
149 [Dutch]
DE WIT, Frederik - Frontispiece to «Nieut (sic) Kaert-boeck
vande XVII Nederlandse Provincie». Amsterdam, Frederik De
Wit, 3th quarter of 17th c.
Engraving, 49,6 x 29,6 cm, laid paper (edges frayed with some loss of image to
right edge, paper soiled). Under passe-partout.
150 / 200 €
Hand-coloured title page with allegorical representations of the city of
Amsterdam holding the town hall and river Gods.
Ref. STCN. - Not in Van der Krocht.
Unique Print Collage celebrating the Dutch Republic
150 [Dutch]
DOLENDO, Bartholomeus; DE GHEYN II, Jacob - «Justitie
over den baeliuw van Zuyt-Hollant, door Willem de Goede,
Graef van Hollant». Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher II; Gerard
Valck, 1613.
8 engravings, text and orn. border, 63 x 102 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate
with publ. address. (often trimmed just outside borderline). Composed sheet of
individual prints, pasted on cardb. support. Good impressions.
3.000 / 4.000 €
151
152 [Dutch]
GALLE, Philips. After Maarten VAN HEEMSKERCK - The
Story of Esther. [Haarlem, Philips Galle], 1564.
8 engravings, 20,5 x 24,6 cm, numbered, dated, signed (on warm toned paper
with wide margins). Stuck under passe-partout by upper margin.
200 / 250 €
(Detail)
Composite print consisting of eight pl. with text, published as a whole set to
be composed by the customer. This means that each set that is put together
differently and is unique. The central plate (40,7 x 57,2) by Bartholomeus
Dolendo represents Willem III on his sick bed, while he hands over his sword to
the executioner. The latter is to execute the bailiff for stealing a cow. Surrounding
this scene are seven other numbered plates by Jacob II De Ghyn with text
fragments taken from the «Divisie-Chronyck» (XIII,32). The whole is surrounded
by a decorative orn. border. The complete ensemble of plates, title strip, text
fragments and border is extremely rare. The printroom of the Rijksmuseum
(RP-P-OB-76.955) owns one of the only other complete compositions, which is
organised with the Justitia print off centre.
Ref. Muller I.208. - New Hollstein (De Gheyn Family, I), 123.2. - Atlas Van Stock
139.
151 [Dutch]
After Albrecht DÜRER - Saint Eustace.
Engraving, 26 x 36 cm, laid paper (trimmed just outside the borderline). Stuck by
upper corners under passe-partout.
1.100 / 1.250 €
Anonymous copy in the same direction after Dürer’s largest and technically
most ambitious 1501 engraving, with the same size as the original and Dürer’s
monogram on a fictive scrap of paper.
Ref. Meder 60.
Complete series of 8 prints, 1st state: 1. Esther crowned by Ahasuerus. - 2.
Mordecai overhearing the treason of Bigthan and Teresh. - 3. Ahasuerus
commissions to destroy the Jewish people. - 4. Esther’s servants telling her of
Mordecai’s refusal of the raiment. - 5. Esther inviting Ahasuerus for a banquet.
- 6. Ahasuerus consulting the book of Chronicles. - 7. Ahasuerus consulting
Haman. - 8. Esther accusing Haman at the Banquet.
Ref. New Hollstein (Maarten van Heemskerck): 151-158 and (Philips Galle)I: 49-
56.
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