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,…

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…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good damage top edge 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…

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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 10/11/2019 Description: The Seven Liberal Arts (septem artes liberales in Latin) profoundly shaped intellectual thought during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These disciplines formed the foundation of education in ancient and medieval European schools and played a pivotal role in the curriculum of…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 27/5/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19493 Description: This engraving is the final one in Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiariorum (Hunting of wild animals, birds, and fishes. Battles of the Beasts) first published in 1578 by Philip Galle. It is after a drawing (ca.…

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…