Catégorie : Prints & Related Material

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19281 Description: Joris van Spilbergen was a Dutch naval officer renowned for his service to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and exploratory voyages, most notably his circumnavigation of the globe from 1614 to 1617. Leading an expedition of five ships, he…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19179 Description: This dramatic engraving depicts the decisive Christian victory over the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, fought on 7 October 1571 near the port of Lepanto (modern-day Naupaktos, Greece). The battle, provoked by the Ottoman seizure of Cyprus and…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: Complete set of The Eight Wonders of the World, engraved by Philips Galle in 1572, after drawings by Maarten van Heemskerck, with accompanying Latin verses by the humanist Hadrianus Junius. This celebrated series imaginatively reinterprets the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Worldand adds…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19073 Description: This complete and unrecorded set of allegorical etchings of The Four Seasons is a reversed copy after Antonio Tempestas 1592 Roman series, originally published by Giovanni Orlandi. Etched and issued in Antwerp by Pieter de Jode I between 1613…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 5/2/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19447 Description: This early birds-eye view of Batavia is a reduced copy of a larger 1741 engraving by Adolf van der Laan (View Record (#425)), featured in Jean-Pierre-Joseph Du Bois book on the biographies of the Dutch East Indies…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 9/4/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19445 Description: This etching by Rembrandt portrays Clement de Jonghe, a prominent Amsterdam print and map dealer of the mid-seventeenth century. Although no documentary evidence confirms whether the portrait was commissionedthere are no known letters or references in De…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 7/12/2021 Description: This striking series by Stefano della Bella visualises the classical elementsEarth (Terra), Water (Aqua), Air (Aer), and Fire (Ignis)through richly detailed allegorical landscapes and seascapes, rendered in the refined etching technique for which della Bella was renowned. The inscription Stefano…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 16/9/2020 Description: Two allegorical glass paintings. One depicting the continents of America and Africa. The other represents the continents of Europe and Asia. nFrom Leen email: The glass paintings are in early frames that go back to 1820-30, but the glass paintings themselves…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 2/2/2022 Dealers ID No.: 19047 Description: This engraving, titled Tres Deae Paridem Conveniunt (The Three Goddesses Meet with Paris), depicts Venus, Juno, and Minervaeach labelled by nameawaiting Paris's judgment. Engraved by Adriaen Collaert and based on a 1587 drawing by Stradanus (Jan van…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 31/12/2021 Description: The engraving depicts a major naval battle between Dutch and Portuguese fleets on 27 December 1601 in Bantam Bay (now Banten Bay), Indonesia. It resulted in Dutch victory thus opening up the lucrative spice trade. For the book see #350 Engraver:…