Bry, Jan Theodor de (1561-1623) after Amman, Joost (1539-1591)

Marching soldiers

Marching soldiers: at the center a soldier with a huge flag and a couple with musical instruments. Signed on the bottom right: 'Ioa Theodor de Bry', From the collection M. Paulme (Lugt 1910) and R. Ph. Goldschmidt (1840-1914) (Lugt 2926)l Engraving on paper with margins; platemark: 47 x 286 mm; total: 54 x 292 mm; only state Hollstein 26, Wurzbach 20; OMP (Old Masters Prints Black Folders) Br-Bz (4)

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Book number: 60286

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Clouwet, Peter (1629-1670) after Quellinus, Erasums (1607-1678)

OBRAS DE LORENZO GRACIAN. (Tomo II)

Engraved frontispiece to the second volume of a collection of works by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658), known as Baltasar Gracián. The author was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. Before a niche seven characters surround a stone on which the title of the collection is engraved: 'OBRAS / DE / LORENZO / GRACIAN. / Tomo II.' Among these figures are Athena on the left, Mars, Justice and Rebecca with the camel. In the foreground the three ages of men. Signed on the bottom left: 'E. Quelinus delin. P. Clouwet sculp.' address of the publisher and year follow: 'En AMBERES, en casa de Geronijmo ij Iuanbautista Verdussen, 1669' l Engraving on paper, mounted on thicker paper; trimmed to plate mark; total: 223 x 167 mm; traces of glue have surfaced, especially above on the left; traces of inked letters [AE or F] on the bottom left, probably due to the storing of the pages with fresh

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Book number: 61660

Catalogue: (general) Allegory Mythologie Mythology Religion Testament

Cochet, Joseph Antoine (also Coget/Cochet) (1630-1678) after Popels, Johannes (ca. 1600-1663/83)

IGNIS (allegory of fire)

Children playing making a fire. Plate coming from a set on the four elements. Titled below in the center:'IGNIS', four lines in Latin:'Ignis Cuneta si terrestris / Deuoret apposita / Quid miramus si Caelestis / Vrat corda languida'; Signed below:'Ioan Popels Inuent ex / Ant. Coget fecit' Numbered within the composition on the bottom right:'4'l Etching and engraving on paper pasted on thicker paper; total: 226 x 125 mm OMP (Old Masters Prints Black Folders) C (5)

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Book number: 60290

Catalogue: Allegory Prenten Print Prints prent

Collaert, Adriaen (c.1560-1618) after Vos, Maarten de (1532-1603)

AMERICA (The Four Continents)

From the set of the Four Continents, here is the personification of sitting on the back of a huge phantasized armadillo. On the left background primitives hunting animals along with cannibals preparing their meal... On the right foreground Spaniards engaging battles with American natives. On the bottom four lines of Latin in two columnes:'Illa quidem nostris... praetendit AMERICA clavam.' Signed just above the margin:'M. de Vos invent. / Adrian Collaert / scaps. et excud.'l Engraving on paper with small margins, trimmed below on platemark; total: 213 x 267 mm; evenly yellowed paper; state I/3; New Hollstein 1317 OMP (Old Masters Prints Black Folders) C (5)

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Book number: 60292

Catalogue: (general) Allegory Prenten Print prent

copy after Vos, Maarten de (1532-1603) after Sadeler, Raphael I (1560-1632)

AMOR (four allegorical prints)

First print of the series: Love. In the foreground a young man playing a lute under a tree with Cupid aiming an arrow at him; beyond is a park with a loggia and figures making music, eating and drinking at a table in the open air; at left is a Diana fountain, a female torso spurting water from her breasts atop a turtle; by the musician's feet are various musical instruments, a sport racket, a sword, gloves and a moneybag. Inscribed on the bottom:'Dum mihi... foelix qui potuit dicere talis eram.'; number '253' added with brown ink, titled above:'AMOR' Inscription Content: Lettered above with “AMOR”. Below left “Martin de vos inventor / Raphael Sadeler scalpsit et excudit” and date “1591”. In the margin two columns of Latin, each four lines “Dum mihi … eram”.l Engraving on paper, pasted on cardboard, rimmed within paltemark; total: 216 x 251; Hollstein 1462, copy c

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Book number: 60524

Catalogue: (general) Allegory

Dagley, Richard (ca. 1765-1841)

The Antiquary [Death's Doings (publication title), 1828]

Plate from Richard Dagley's book: 'Death's Doings; Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions, in Verse and Prose, the Friendly Contributions of Various Writers: Principally Intended as Illustrations of Thirty Copper-plates Designed and Etched by R. Dagley.' The poem dedicated to the Antiquarian is composed by Cheviot Tichburn and it extends from page 199 to 201, introduced by this etching. The expresses a sort of criticism towards this profession that rather than looking at the present and take action is totally devoted to the past. Yet when death shows up in his shop, holding a shield bearing the antiquarian's name he cannot do anything but leave is life along with all the treasures he collected and was about to sell. Monogrammed on the bottom right: 'RD', inscribed on the shield held by death: 'HIC / JACET / JONATHAN / OLDBUCK / F.A.S. / Obit'l Etching and engraving on paper, cut on the right side on plate mark; total: 209 x 126 mm; some stains on the plate and along the margins, pencil annotations within plate and on he verso, referring to the provenance of the plate, mounted in passepartout

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Book number: 60902

Catalogue: (general) Allegory Antiquarian Death Professions

Delaune, Etienne (1518-1595)

April [The twelve months

Fourth engraving from the suite of 12 entitled 'Première Suite des Mois de l'Année' with an allegory of the month of April. Wreaths with elements recalling hunting decorate the frame; the medaillon at the top center contains the zodiacal sign of the Taurus. A hunting scene with a man on a horse chasing a deer being taken by two dogs. Other two men are running on he ground blowing hunting horns. In the background a montanious landscape. At the bottom on a cartouche: 'Aprilis flores aperit avibusq. canoris / Paria dat laetas ostendit arbore frondes / Cum pri Regis' l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 177 x 238 mm. State I/2 before plate numbering. Small stain on the right, on the decorative frame

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Book number: 60064

Catalogue: Allegory Prenten Prints months prent

Delaune, Etienne (1518-1595)

August [The twelve months

Eighth engraving from the suite of 12 entitled 'Première Suite des Mois de l'Année' with an allegory of the month of August. Wreaths with elements recalling harvest decorate the frame; the medaillon at the top center contains the zodiacal sign of the Virgo. Men and women are performing the crop harvest on the right. The harvest is being collected and drained at the center. On the background a lanscape. At the bottom on a cartouche: 'Foelices Auguste iacis, bona dum sua norunt. / Agricolas, fruges illis, fructusq. rependens. / Cum pri. Regis'; nr. ´29´on the bottom right. l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 186 x 247 mm. State I/2 before plate numbering. Pasted on thicker paper, margin damaged especially to the right.

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Book number: 60068

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Delaune, Etienne (1518-1595)

December [The twelve months

Twelfth engraving from the suite of 12 entitled 'Première Suite des Mois de l'Année' with an allegory of the month of December. Wreaths with sausages and salami decorate the frame; the medaillon at the top center contains the zodiacal sign of the Capricorn. A man cooking pigs in the center of the composition while a woman and a man are baking breads on the right. At the bottom on a cartouche: 'Ite sue alio, vos vult enecare December / Ille ferit glebas, vt dulcia semina seruet / Cum pri Regis'. On the bottom right nr.´33´l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 180 x 241 mm. State I/2 before plate numbering. Repaired on the top margin.

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Book number: 60072

Catalogue: Allegory Prenten Prints months prent

Delaune, Etienne (1518-1595)

June [The twelve months

Sixth engraving from the suite of 12 entitled 'Première Suite des Mois de l'Année' with an allegory of the month of June. Wreaths with jars, sheeps and items for shearing decorate the frame; the medaillon at the top center contains the zodiacal sign of the Cancer. In the foreground women are shearing sheeps and rams under the watch of a shepherd. On the left a woman is milking a cow. To the right a hilly background. At the bottom on a cartouche: 'Iunio mulctra valet butyris, caseoq. recenti / Vellus praebet, ouis, apibusq. aluearia feruent / Cum pri Regis'. On the bottom right corner number ´27´added in ink. l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 176 x 239 mm. State I/2 before plate numbering. Repaired on the verso in the center.

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Book number: 60066

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Delaune, Etienne (1518-1595)

October [The twelve months

Tenth engraving from the suite of 12 entitled 'Première Suite des Mois de l'Année' with an allegory of the month of October. Wreaths with grapes and wine decorate the frame; the medaillon at the top center contains the zodiacal sign of the Scorpio. In the central composition men are pressing the grapes to make the wine which is collected in barrels on the right. On the background on the hills men are harvesting grapes. At the bottom on a cartouche: 'Bubus arat terras vel equis, spargitq. vicissim / Triticeas October opes, pia dona columbis / Cum pri Regis'. Nr. ´31´ on the bottom right.l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 177 x 240 mm. State I/2 before plate numbering.

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Book number: 60070

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Delft, Willem Jacobsz (1580-1638)

Tooneel der beroemder hertogen princen graven ende krygs-helden van christenrijk, Delft 1617 [Frontispiece]

On a cartouche in the shape of the skin of a lion is impressed the title; on each side nine shields with family crests are hanging. Above an angel plays on a double trumpet, whereas on the bottom left is Time and on the right History. Frontispiece for: 'Tooneel der beroemder hertogen princen graven ende krygs-helden van christenrijk' published by Nicolaes de Clerck in Delft in 1617; on the bottom address of the publisher and year of publication. l Engraving on paper, trimmed within plate mark; total: 251 x 169 mm, text in letterpress on the verso; Hollstein 100a

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Book number: 61786

Catalogue: (general) Allegory

DUYVIS, DEBORA,

Allegory 'Het leven is een Wonderboeck'

(Life is a Book of Wonder) Allegorical engraving featuring many scenes from life from birth to marriage to death, as well as religious imagery. This print was published by the Nederlandsche Exlibriskring.Engraving on wove paper, sheet size 381 x 280 mm., platemark 252 x 195 mm. Made by Debora Duyvis and signed in pencil in the lower right. Dated 1940.Debora Geertruida Duyvis (Amsterdam 1886-1974) was a Dutch graphic artist and painter. She grew up in a well-to-do business family, and went to the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1911 to 1918. Here she was taught graphic techniques by Johannes Aarts. The director of the Rijksacademie at the time, Antoon Derkinderen, also urged her to choose a career in applied arts. Afer her studies she first focussed on portraits in various techniques. She made a long trip to Italy to widen her horizon. She continued to travel throughout her life. She practised all graphic techniques, woodcut, etching, lithography and engraving, but excelled in the technically challenging engraving. Het technical skill was much praised by contemporary artists. A lot of her work was applied art, such as book designs, bookplates and occasional graphic. Elegant and delicate engraving, in fine condition. The margin edges browned, and with a small tear in the top margin. References: Kersten 36; Vervoorn p. 45

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Book number: 71124

Catalogue: Allegory

DUYVIS, DEBORA,

New Year's greeting 1946

A boy climbing stairs, with a sack with the year 1946 printed on it, combs the beard of an old man leaning on a sword and holding scales. Behind the man, in flames, the years 1940 to 1945 rise up. This refers to the end of the second world war, and is accompanied by the caption 'Kam uit de klis, eert slimmer is'. This in turn references Jan Luyken's series of prints of occupations, and specifically the comb maker. Etching and stipple work with plate tone, on wove paper. Sheet size 176 x 120 mm., platemark 126 x 92 mm. Made by Debora Duyvis after her own design, signed in pencil lower right.Debora Duyvis (Amsterdam 1886 - 1974) was a Dutch painter, illustrator and graphic artist. She was a student of J.J. Aarts and Antoon Derkinderen. In good condition, the image area lightly browned from matting. This is from the collection of Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, another painter and graphic artist from the Netherlands. Her collection mark (not in Lugt) is on the matting and the lower left corner of the print.

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Book number: 71213

Catalogue: Allegory New Year's wishes

Dyck, Anthonie van (1599-1641) and Vorsterman, Lucas I (1595-1675)

Titian and his mistress [self portrait of Titian and Pictura]

An old man on the left in profile reaching out towards a younger woman to the right. This impressive work on paper is said o be based on a lost self-portrait by Titian. Rather than a mistress, the young woman might be seen as a personification of Pictura, or Painting. She is clearly oversized in respect to the painter. Titian had used an extra-large woman in a series of paintings of a nude Venus, in each of which the woman is larger than the male musician. This discrepancy in scale might mean that the man is an "artist" creating his "work of art". Music, as a metaphor for the creation of art, has been a common theme in painting in every century since the Renaissance. Instead of music here Titian (or possibly Van Dyck) constructed a composition in which touch becomes the metaphor for "painting." A skull is positioned within a niche under the elbow of the woman. The lower part of the print has been cut out. The text would read: 'Ecco il belveder ó che felice sorte! / Che la fruttifera frutto in ventre porte // Ma ch'ella, ó me vita et morte piano / demone tra l'arte del magno Titiano // Al molto illustre, magnifico et osseruandis.mo sig.re il SIG LUCA VAN UFFEL, in segno d'affectione et inclinatione / amorevole como Patrone et singularis.mo amico suo dedicato il vero ritratto del unico Titiano Ant. van Dyck.' The dedicatee of the print is Lucas van Uffelen (1586-1638) art dealer and patron of van Dyck. l Etching and engraving on paper pasted on cardboard; total 261 x 224 mm; traces of glue visible on the surface, some dirt and a tear on the right margin repaired while attaching the print to the cardboard. Bright impression; late state; Hollstein 21

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Book number: 60940

Catalogue: (general) Allegory Portraits Portretten