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The Five Senses.
The Five Senses.
London, Darton & Hodge Holborn Hill [c.1830].
Engraving. 330 x 410mm (13 x 16¼"). Repaired tears to top and bottom edges, slight crease. Cut to platemark.
Busy scene in which figures demonstrate the use of each of the five senses. A rare item.
[Ref: 44113]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Five Senses]
[The Five Senses] [Hearing]
P.Staverenus.
[n.d. c.1690]
Mezzotint, sheet 375 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed almost to plate and glued to backing sheet. Damaged. Staining.
Hearing, from a set of the five senses represented by peasants. The title often associated with this image is 'Ha! Ha! Hah! - I've got the Chink'. A man with chin-length curly hair smiles as he counts coins in his right palm, wearing a tall hat with a bow, his shirt and coat slightly open at the cuffs and collar.
[Ref: 61607]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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T'Gevoel. [Touch.]
T'Gevoel. [Touch.] 5.
ABoth. Inven. IBoth. Fecit.
[n.d. c.1630.]
Etching, plate 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate. Repaired nicks and tears on edges, small tear going into image on left edge.
Street scene with people looking on as a quack pulls out a man's tooth, with a pilgrim standing in the foreground on the left. From a series of five scenes after Andries Both of people engaged in activities associated with the respective sense.
Hollstein: 15.III. Bartsch: V.213.15.
[Ref: 59001]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Five Senses.]
[Five Senses.] N 1. Le Toucher. [&] N 2. L'Ouie. [&] N 3. L'Odorat. [&] N 4. Le Gout. [&] N 5. La Vüe.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of five rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Mint.
Five rococo designs, each representing a sense, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58928]   £750.00   view all images for this item
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Seeing. La Vüe.
Seeing. La Vüe.
[n.d., c.1780]
Mezzotint. 110 x 145mm (4½ x 5¾"). Trimmed within the platemark.
A half length image of a woman looking at her reflection in the mirror.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32412]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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[Smell] L'Odorat.
[Smell] L'Odorat.
C.D. In.
J. Gole fec. et Exc. cum Privil. Amstelodami. [n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint with large margins, very scarce. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼").
An interior scene satirising allergories of the Five Senses: here a man vomits on the floor as a boy holds up his shirt to expose his bare bottom. Two of the three onlookers are holding their noses.
Holl 263. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36399]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Goust. Mon goust n'est pour la confiture Je fuis l'art, Je suis la nature & Sy Je ne Seaurois changer Le bon fruit m'est tant agreable Que je me tiendrois miserable Sy lon me Privoit d'en manger. [&] Lovie. Parmy tant & tant de merueilles Qui Rauissent
Le Goust. Mon goust n'est pour la confiture Je fuis l'art, Je suis la nature & Sy Je ne Seaurois changer Le bon fruit m'est tant agreable Que je me tiendrois miserable Sy lon me Privoit d'en manger. [&] Lovie. Parmy tant & tant de merueilles Qui Rauissent Par les oreilles j'estimois la voix seullement Mais ce Lut a tant d'armonie Quand je le touche & le manie Que Je le trouue aussy charmant. [&] La Veve Pour se mirer dans la fontaine Narcisse en receut pour la peine un mal dont il n'a peu guerir & celle cy qui n'est moins belle Dedans ce miroir Infidelle Trouue un mal qui la fait mourir. [&] L'Atovchement Beaute de tant d'atrais Pourueue Qui nous Peux blesser par la veue & guerir par l'atouchement. C'est animal jraisonnable Plus que toy Paroist secourable Te donnant du Soulagement. [&] L'Odorat Jayme l'oillet sur toute chose Pour luy Je quitte & Lis & Rose Leur odeur ne me peut toucher Auant que d'estre separee De ceste fleur tant desireè Je me veux laisser deschirer.
designe par Huret grave par Ragot.
de l'impression de Mariette Avec privilege. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 299 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼". Trimmed close to platemark. Two small stains in bottom left of 'Le Goust'.
A set of the Five Senses. Taste: a maiden inside a room with plates around her, and in her left-hand she holds a small section of pear. [&] Hearing: a maiden strums a lute; an open books sits on the table next to her in front of a mirror. [&] Sight: a woman stands in front of a mirror with a small box of rings behind on the dresser and hair pins and a clip on the table below the mirror. [&] Touch: a woman pets a small dog sat on a cushion on top of a dresser, whilst in her right-hand she delicately holds a handkerchief. [&] Smell: a woman staning next to an ornate vase with lillies and roses, pulls one towards her nose to smell; in her left-hand she holds a glove.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: P.14,396; 14,395; P.14,399; 14,397; & P.14,398.
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[Taste.]
[Taste.]
[Engraved by Pieter Schenck after Andries Both.]
[n.d., c.1720.][Bit Later]
Mezzotint. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
A group of hungry peasants devour pancakes made by an elderly woman outside. A reversed copy of an etching by Jan Both, one of the 'Five Senses' after his brother Andries.
BM: Sheepshanks.6683.
[Ref: 60167]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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T'Gevoel. 5.
T'Gevoel. 5.
G. Honthorst pinxit. H.R. Sculpsit.
Gedruckt t'Amsterdam by Clement de Longhe. [n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving with etching in oval frames decorated with cherubs and natural subjects, very scarce, 451 x 369mm. 17¾ x 14½". Trimmed. Tear in top right corner, where it is pulling away from the board. Glued down to board in right-hand corners.
"Touch" one of the five senses is represented by a startled lady fishing by the river's edge, as man leans across in front to untangle her bodice.
[Ref: 16418]   £450.00  
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