DEUCHAR, David A collection of etchings ater the most eminent masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools. Particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Cornelius, Bega, and Van Vliet. Accompagnied with sundry miscellaneous pieces and a few original designs by David...
Estimation :
250 / 350
Adjudication :
270 €
Description
Deuchar, seal engraver, Edinburgh. s.d.S.l.,s.n.,large 4to, 35,5 x 26 cm, 19th c. half red leather, gilt lettered flat spine (rubbed, discol., head defect.), 130 ff. Inside good copy.
Later impression (1st 1803) on Japan paper of a selection of 222 etchings (some aquatints) incl. front. (num. 1-127 + 95 unnumb. or with erratic numb., e.g. front. = n. 166, etc.). Various sizes, most pl. showing 2 or 3 engr., often signed or monogr. by Deuchar. The plates reproduce paintings and drawings showing genre scenes or portraits, most by 17th c. Dutch artists (num. pcs after Van Ostade) as mentionned on the titlep., with also A. Brouwer, G.B. Castiglione, Della Bella, Berchem (?), some by Deuchar himself. Deuchar (1743-1818) was a goldsmith, seal engraver and an amateur etcher; the last engr. vignette in our copy is a "visiting card" ("David Deuchar Lapidary Edinburgh cuts and sels al sort of fine stones (...)"). Bookplate R.J.M.G. van Hasselt.
Later impression (1st 1803) on Japan paper of a selection of 222 etchings (some aquatints) incl. front. (num. 1-127 + 95 unnumb. or with erratic numb., e.g. front. = n. 166, etc.). Various sizes, most pl. showing 2 or 3 engr., often signed or monogr. by Deuchar. The plates reproduce paintings and drawings showing genre scenes or portraits, most by 17th c. Dutch artists (num. pcs after Van Ostade) as mentionned on the titlep., with also A. Brouwer, G.B. Castiglione, Della Bella, Berchem (?), some by Deuchar himself. Deuchar (1743-1818) was a goldsmith, seal engraver and an amateur etcher; the last engr. vignette in our copy is a "visiting card" ("David Deuchar Lapidary Edinburgh cuts and sels al sort of fine stones (...)"). Bookplate R.J.M.G. van Hasselt.
