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20 [Drawing - emblem]
- “
Amour souuent est sourd
”, [Low Countries?, 17th c.?]. Pen drawing on
vellum, c. 15-18 cm. In very good condition.
Cfr. ill.
€
200/300
Probably from an Album amicorum. Nice scene taken from O. Vaenius’ “Amorum emblemata” (nr.
34), with Fame trumpetting to a deaf Cupid. French quatrain (Expl. “Amour n’a nul soupçon, ny
arriere pensée”).
21 [Drawing - Ghent]
- “
Het goet vanmijn heere Baelde tot Heusden
”, [Ghent, 17th c.].Architectural
drawing on paper, brown and red ink, c. 59,5 x 58 cm (old folds, holes and tears underlaid); not
signed. In acceptable condition.
Cfr. ill.
€
300/400
Frontal and side view of a Flemish mansion in the village of Heusden (Destelbergen).
22 [Drawing]
-
[Arrival of the stage coach]
, 18th or 19th c. Watercolour, 12 x 18 cm; not signed.
Nicely framed under passe-partout (not unframed).
€
200/300
Charming watercolour picturing the scenery of the arrival (or departure) of a stage coach with
passengers, some horsemen and -women, the waitress of a pub bringing some drinks, a dog on top
of the coach, etc.
23 [Drawing]
- [
Landscape with ruins and boat
], 18th c. Gouache on vellum, 14,2 x 19 cm; not
signed.
€
150/250
Nice gouache showing a mountaineous riverside, in the foreground a (antique? Italian?) ruin and
on the river 2 boats loaded and ready to go. From a Liber Amicorum? By a Dutch artist?
24 [Dürer, Albrecht, after]
-
WIERIX, Johannes, attr.
- Coat-of-arms with a skull, 1503. Tool
engr., 21,5 x 15,7 cm (trimmed to the platemark); monogr. of Dürer and date “1503” in lower part.
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout. Some marg. repaired tears, some stains, esp. on verso.
Otherwise good impression.
Cfr. ill.
€
250/350
Copy attr. to J. Wierix by Mauquoy-Hendrickx, in 1st state.
Ref.
Hollstein VII, p. 89, 98. Mauquoy-
Hendrickx 1485 (= Alvin 1191).
25 [Emblems]
-
76 etchings
, 17th c. From C. Ripa’s “Iconologie ou La science des emblèmes,
devises”, Amsterdam, Braakman, 1698, each 13,3 x 7,5 cm, pasted on 19 ff., folio. Sl. browning, 2
with def. margins.
€
100/180
Each pl. showing 6 circular emblems or allegorical figures with their attributes, with French
captions above.
Ref.
Landwehr 687.
26 KNAPTON, Charles
- [Landscape after Annibale Carracci], 18th c. Etching, 26,5 x 34 cm (uneven
small margins); engr. sign. & name. Sl. fox., margins sl. crumpled. Good copy.
€
150/200
River landscape with trees, impression in sepia ink. Rare print
in imitation of drawing
, probably
from the homonym set by the British engravers Arthur Pond & Charles Knapton (1700-1760).
~ 3rd known image of the Niagara Falls ~
27 LECLERC, Sébastien I
- Elie enlevé dans un char de feu. Chute de la rivière de Niagara, c. 1700.
Etching, laid paper, 18,2 x 27,2 cm. Margins faintly brown. Good copy.
€
100/150
2nd known separate print and 3rd known image of the Niagara Falls, with Elijah rising towards
heaven in a chariot of fire in the upper left corner. The falls are greatly heightened and on a large bluff
in the foreground gesticulating onlookers appear very small. “As in most of Leclerc’s compositions,
and indeed in many 17th-c. prints of natural phenomena, Niagara is more the occasion for religious
allegory than a focus in and of itself” (Mc Kinsey, p. 17). Sebastien Leclerc (Metz 1637- Paris
