Catégorie : Prints & Related Material

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Description: This finely executed copperplate engraving depicts the roadstead of Batavia, the principal settlement and administrative centre of the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia, as it appeared in the mid-eighteenth century. Founded in 1619 on the north-western coast of…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair, repaired lower edge Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19547 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his notable works was the Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in 1540. nFour years he…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No-price Date Acquired: 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19645 Description: The Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the World) is a six-volume collection of detailed plans and birds-eye views of predominantly European cities. Created by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, the first volume was published in 1572,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 3/6/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19497 Description: Christoph Jamnitzer was a celebrated silversmith known for his remarkable contribution to ornamental design through his book, Neuw Grotteßken Buch (New Book of Grotesques), published in Nuremberg in 1610 by Jamnitzer himself. This collection was intended…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 3/2/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19297 Description: Since antiquity, the conventional belief in Europe held that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. These elements were often represented allegorically in art, personified by figures typically accompanied by symbolic attributes…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 15/4/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19459 Description: Antonio Tempesta, also known as il Tempestino, was a skilled and prolific Italian painter and engraver whose work served as a crucial link between the Baroque artistic traditions of Rome and the influences of Antwerp's artistic culture. His career…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 12/4/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19449 Description: Two Dutch East Indiamen under full sail, carrying the colours of the Dutch Republic and the city of Amsterdam. First published: Amsterdam: 1647 Image Size (cm): 18×9.7 Mapmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677) Price: 700 Primary Category: Prints &…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 22/3/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19405 Description: The business card of Clement de Jonghe's art and map shop in Amsterdam.nThe image depicts de Jonghe showing a large plan of the city of Batavia to customers in his shop. The auricular lobe ('kwab' in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 2/1/2025 Date Acquired: 10/4/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19311 Description: This early birds-eye view of Batavia provides a detailed depiction of the citys center, showcasing its canals and canal houses. North is oriented to the left, where the back entrance of Batavia Castle and its warehouses…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six engravings based on oil paintings by William Hogarth. As in the original paintings, the prints offer a scathing critique of the idea that the aristocracy and wealthy live moral or virtuous lives. Hogarth satirises the institution of arranged marriage, portraying…