Catégorie : Prints & Related Material

  • Armillary Sphere

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 12/1/2022 Description: In 1522, Johannes Grüninger, one of the most important publishers in Strasbourg, issued the third edition of Martin Waldseemüllers Geographia, edited by Lorenz Fries. The edition was a commercial success, leading to a fourth edition in 1525. For this revised…

  • An unsigned pen and ink wash depicting two

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good vertical fold Confirmed: 10/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/12/2021 Dealers ID No.: 19024 Description: An unsigned pen and ink wash depicting two Dutch East India Company (VOC) ships, a galley, and a narrow ship near Fort Rammekens closely resembles an engraving and a painting attributed to Engel Hoogerheyden.…

  • This engraving is the final one in Venationes

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 10/12/2021 Dealers ID No.: 19010 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…

  • Coastal view

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 22/12/2021 Description: D'Y Stroom en Zeegezichten (The River IJ and Seascapes) is a series of ten etchings created in 1701 by Ludolf Bakhuizen, a renowned maritime artist born in Emden who settled in Amsterdam around 1650. Bakhuizen specialized in depicting ships at…

  • Four Elements

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair. Backed onto paper sheet Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 9/12/2021 Description: A series of the Four Elements after Hendrick Goltzius.n''Terra (Earth)''nA hunter with two dogs in a mountain landscape. Below the image are two lines of Latin verse: Hunc leporem ac reliquas pecudes Terra alma ministrat / In…

  • Battle of Bantam

    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:…

  • Quatuor Mundi Ætates: Ætas Aurea, Ætas Argentea, Ætas Ænea, Ætas Ferrea

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/12/2021 Description: This series of four allegorical engravings, designed by Tobias Verhaecht and engraved by Jan Collaert II, was first published by Theodor Galle in Leiden in 1638. The accompanying Latin text, written by Laurens Beyerlinck, draws inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, capturing the…

  • Aer

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 19/2/2021 Description: Since antiquity, European doctrine held that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Artists frequently depicted these elements allegorically, personifying them through figures typically accompanied by symbolic attributes and sometimes narrative scenes.nAdriaen Collaerts engravings portray semi-naked…

  • De Hemelsche Cloots

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 21243 Description: This engraving first appeared in the cosmographical section of CaertThresoor, the compact, Dutch atlas published in 1598 under the imprint of Barent Langenes and distributed through the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz. Designed as an affordable, portable alternative to large-format atlases,…

  • Ignis

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2022 Date Acquired: 18/2/2021 Description: Since antiquity, European doctrine held that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Artists frequently depicted these elements allegorically, personifying them through figures typically accompanied by symbolic attributes and sometimes narrative scenes.nAdriaen Collaerts engravings depict semi-naked…