Grosvenor Prints

Albertus II.
C. de pas exc.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Albert the Magnanimous (1397-1439) of the House of Hapsburg,, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (although never crowned Holy Roman Emperor), as well as Duke of Austria and king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He is best known for the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna in 1420: on March 12th 1421, 92 men and 120 women who were still in Vienna were burned at the stake south of the city walls. From a series of equestrian portraits of the Holy Roman Emperors by Crispijn de Pass the Elder.
[Ref: 56348] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Iophiel. Cælestis Iophiel natum Sem Noe parente, Numinis æterni Sacra docet.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Iophiel, standing half-turned, showing his wings. Behind is a scene, the ''Drunkenness of Noah''. Plate 5 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1868,0612.2031. The BM does not list the full set.
[Ref: 51893] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Malthiel. Malthîel nocte, velut lampas clarissima, Mosi Et populo Israel lumine monstrat iter. Corn. Kil. Duffl.
M. de Vos invent. Crispin. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Malthael (sometimes Peliel), seated on a rock, staff in hand. Behind is a scene of him dividing the Red Sea for Moses and letting it fall on Pharaoh. Plate 8 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
See BM: 1868,0612.2028 for Gabriel, first in the series; this plate not listed.
[Ref: 51896] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Michael. Militiæ princeps coelestis Sæua Michael Cum diro invictus bella dracone gerit. C. Kil. Duffl.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. van der Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Michael, standing with cross in hand. Behind is a scene of him defeating the dragon. Plate 2 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1868,0612.2027. The BM does not list the full set.
[Ref: 51890] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Peliel. Peliêl cum valido luctatur nocte Iacobo: Luce recens ortâ, vi suparatus abit. Corn. Kil. Duffl.
M. de Vos invent.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Phanuel (sometimes Peliel), seated on a rock, staff in hand. Behind is a scene of him wrestling with Jacob. Plate 7 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
See BM: 1868,0612.2028 for Gabriel, first in the series; this plate not listed.
[Ref: 51895] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Raphael. Te duce carpit iter iuvenis, divine Raphael: Et Tobias Senior te medicante videt.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Raphael, standing with staff in hand. Behind is a scene of him with Tobias and the fish. Plate 3 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1868,0612.2029. The BM does not list the full set.
[Ref: 51891] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Raziel. En protoplastis Raziel gladio miniitatur Nec paradisi auras carpere ut ante sinit.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Raziel, seated with flaming sword in hand. Behind is a scene of him chasing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Plate 4 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1868,0612.2030. The BM does not list the full set.
[Ref: 51892] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Uriel. Urîel sollicitè quærenti Eldræ abdita pandit: Ignarum varijs instituitque modis. Corn. Kil. Duffl.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Uriel, seated on an altar, flower stem in hand. Behind is a scene of him above a kneeling man, probably Enoch. Plate 9, the last of a series of portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
See BM: 1868,0612.2028 for Gabriel, first in the series; this plate not listed.
[Ref: 51897] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Archangels.] Zadkiel. Angelico Zadkiel, puerum ne iusa capessens Immolet Abramus, protinus ore vetat.
M. de Vos invent. Crisp. de Pas sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
The Archangel Zadkiel, seated on a rock, sword in hand. Behind is a scene of him stopping Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. Plate 6 of a series of nine portraits of the Archangels engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1868,0612.2032. The BM does not list the full set.
[Ref: 51894] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Collection of plates from ''Les Vrais Pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes dames de la Chrestiente, desguisees en Bergeres''.]
[Crispijn van de Passe the younger.]
[Amsterdam: Joost Broersz for the author, n.d., c.1640.]
19th century scrapbook, half morocco gilt with marbled boards, all edges gilt, containing an etched titlepage and 51 engraved portraits (of 72) plus one unrelated engraving. Title trimmed to plate, portraits trimmed, losing inscriptions, lacking accompanying text.
A collection of portrait of 17th century women, mostly dressed as shepherdesses. The 'Vrais Poutraits' was issued in four parts: I & II contained 'les Damoiselles Nobles & Dames de Qualité'; III 'les Pourtraits des Femmes et Filles d'honorable Marchants'; & IV 'Le Choeur des Muses, avec leur Chansons a l'honneur des vertueuses Femmes et Filles'. The portraits were engraved in pairs on 36 plates; the titles (here excised) gave no clues to the identities of the sitters, which had to be guessed from the accompanying letterpress verse. Crispijn van de Passe the younger (1594-1670).
[Ref: 62157] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Jo.s Caius Medicus.
[n.d., 1620.]
Engaving. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image at sides, laid on album paper.
John Caius (born John Kays, 1510-73), physician, nine times president of the College of Physicians, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He obtained the grant for the college to receive the bodies of executed criminals for dissection, helping in the advance of anatomical knowledge.
[Ref: 44095] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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Thomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglus aeta sua XXX.
CVP [Monogram].
[Arnhem, Crispijn de Passe: 1620.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 95mm, 5¼ x 3½". Trimmed to printed border, laid on card.
Half length portrait of Thomas Cavendish (1560-92), holding a globe and measuring instrument; in oval frame with parapet. Published as an illustration to the 'Heroologia Anglica'. Cavendish was the first person to set out with the intention of circumnavigating the globe, leaving in 1586 to emulate Drake's successes in plundering the Spanish colonies in the Pacific. Having captured more plunder than he could carry he returned to a hero's welcome in England in 1588 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.
BM: 1948,0315.8.37.
[Ref: 27848] £480.00

[Francis Drake] Franciscus Drake Miles Auratus [...]
[Crispijn de Passe, 1620.]
Engraving, sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed; laid on album sheet.
Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) the most famous of all English seafarers, his hand on a globe. Drake earned his fame and fortune through his skilful seamanship and outstandindingly successful piracy. His circumnavigation of the globe from 1577-81 involved a number of very profitable raids on Spanish ships and ports. His increasingly frequent and serious attacks during the 1580s were an important factor contributing to Philip II's decision to launch the Armada against English in 1588. Drake served as vice-admiral of the English fleet which defeated the Armada. By Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter Crispijn de Passe the Elder (c.1565-1637) who produced portraits of European nobility, as well as religious, mythological and allegorical prints and books.
[Ref: 42092] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Figure de l'habit de Chevallier a la Pluvinelle. Figure 2. B. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Spotting and creasing at top.
An engraving of the doublet, hat and boots of a dressage rider, within a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57448] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XIII watching a horse being trained.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Creasing at top.
A scene in the riding yard of the Tuileries, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained to leap a barrier, watched by a dozen named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57451] £320.00

[Horse training.] Figure 5. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), with very large margins. Tears taped. Creasing on top.
A scene in the courtyard of the Louvre, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained at a pillar, with two named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57461] £320.00

Fridericus IIII. D.G. Com. Pal. Reni. Utr. Bavar. Dux, Sac. Rom. Imp. Archidapifer Elector Sept.
Crispiano Passære cælatore.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Verso in ink "Claude Augustin Mariette 1694" From a famous collection. Sheet cut in oval, 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on J Whatman album paper top left.
Portrait of Frederick IV (1574-1610), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, engraved by Crispijn de Passe, curiously clean-shaven.
[Ref: 59860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus D.G. VIII Angliæ, Fran, et Hib, Rex &c...
[Crisijn de Passe.]
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Sheet: 155 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547) shown holding a sceptre. An illustration from Henry Holland's 'Heroologia Anglica' 1620.
[Ref: 43726] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Hortus Floridus [frontispiece] In quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum Icones ad vivam veramos formam accuratissime delineatae [...]
Crisp. Passaeus excud: ultr
Extant Arnhemy Apud Joannem Jansonium Bibliopolam ibid
Engraving, platemark 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"). Damaged; glued to backing sheet.
Frontispiece to the 'Hortus Floridus', one of the best-known of the many 17th flower books. The frontispiece includes portraits of the botanist Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) who played an important role in introducing the tulip to Western Europe, and his fellow botanist Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585). The book's plates were engraved by Crispijn de Passe junior (1589-1670), part of a famous printmaking family. The book consisted of two parts: the first comprised of some 175 illustrations of mostly bulbous and tuberous plants, and the second reproduced fruit, trees, and medicinal plants.
[Ref: 40097] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Title-Page to Thomas Scott, 'Vox Dei'] O Death where is thy sting? O Hel where is thy victory [...]
[Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1623]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet.
Christ standing on Satan, Sin and Death, and holding a triangle including full-length portraits of James I in the centre and Charles, prince of Wales (trampling on the heads of the Pope and two kings) above him. Frontispiece to 'Vox Dei' by the protestant polemicist Thomas Scott (d.1626), who at this time of publication was living on the continent and writing consistently in defence of the protestant cause. He was murdered while on his way to church in Utrecht in 1626.
[Ref: 42540] £360.00

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[Louis XIII practicing jousting.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), on paper with 17th century watermark, very large margins. Creasing at top.
Louis XIII riding down a tilt barrier striking a mannikin in the forehead, watched by four named courtiers, including Earl of Carlisle. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57450] £320.00

[Jousting armour.] Pieces des Armes rompce en lice faict au Naturel dans Le Logis de M. le Duc de Bellegar de grand Escuter de france. Figure 50. ooo 2 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), large margins on 3 sides. Tears affecting image at top, damp stains and creasing. Small loss top right.
An illustration of various parts of a knight's jousting armour. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57452] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XIII on horseback with a lance.] Figur. 39. 3 part.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed within image, edges chipped. Damaged and loss.
The king in profile with portraits of eleven named courtiers. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, so the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57449] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of a love affair.] Tribunal injurie & Armoris. De beschuldinge en klachten van Juffr. Elizabeth Stevenon, gedaen als aenklaegster van der Heer Gabriel Lalande.
[by Crispijn de Passe.]
[n.d., 1661.]
Rare broadsheet with engraving, 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"), set in letterpress, sheet 500 x 285mm (19¾ x 11¼"). Sheet with loss at bottom, not affecting text.
A pair of former lovers in a court case presided over by the Titaness Thenis, with Venus acting for the complainant. Underneath is an extensive satirical verse. A satire on the scandalous events following the end of the love affair between Gabriel Lalande, a French merchant, and Elizabeth Lestevenon, a young woman from a rich Dutch mercantile family. After an intimate relationship of several months, Elizabeth announced she was going to marry someone else. In indignation Lalande started spreading rumours about their affair, including their sexual activity. Lestevenson's family appealed to the Amsterdam Magistrates, who jailed Lalande for seventy days, but this did not stop the gossip. Such was the scandal that at the end of 1661 the printer Johannes van den Bergh collected many of the broadsheets and published a collection, 'The Sweet Courtship of Mr Gabriel de Lalande, or the fallen rose of Miss Elizabeth Lestevenon'.
Arthur der Weduwen: Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, p.154.
[Ref: 56035] £420.00

Abrahamus Ortelius Antuerpianus Cosmographus Natus Ao. MDXXVII
[Engraved by Crispijn de Passe after Adriaen Thomasz Key.]
[Cologne, c.1595.]
Engraving with very large margins. 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4½").
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), the Flemish cartographer and geographer whose 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' is regarded as the first modern atlas.
[Ref: 29720] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

S. Thomas. 9. Credo in Spiritu, Sanctum. S. Thomas Parthis et Medis Evangelizans, in idolorum Indiæ sano hasta transfixus est.
Jodocus Winghæus invent. Crispin d. passe fe. et excudit.
[n.d., 1594.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining.
St Thomas, half-length, reading a large tome with a spear.
[Ref: 61389] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wedding Feast of Tobias and Sarah.] Religiosi Convivii Laetus Exitus [...]
Martin de Voss inventor Crispianus de Passe fecit et excudit.
[n.d., c.1595.]
Engraving, sheet 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Laid on backing sheet; trimmed; tears and damage to bottom edge. Damaged.
The wedding feast of Tobas and Sarah, as told in the Book of Tobit. Engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) after Marten de Vos (1532-1603). Crispijn engraved a number of religious scenes after Vos.
[Ref: 41994] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Maarten van Tromp] Den Edlen Manhaften Helt Marten Harpers Tromp Leutenant Admirael over de Zee der vereenich de Provincien
Crispin van de Pas delin
A.V. Waesberg exc [c.1640]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet. Rare.
Maarten van Tromp (1598-1653), the famous Dutch admiral, scourge of the English navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-3). Portrait surrounded by ship portraits and battle scenes, including depictions of the Battle of the Downs (21 October 1639), a battle in the English Channel in which Tromp's fleet decisively defeated the Spanish forces of Admiral Antonio de Oquendo.
[Ref: 43017] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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