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![[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange]](jpegs/42385.jpg)
[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange] Henricus Fredericus origin Princepts Auraic Comes Nassauiae, Catzonellibogia [...]
AV Venne pn. W Delphus sc. [in image lower right]
Cum Privilegiosexennio Ord. Conf. Prov. J.P. vande Venne exc. Middelburgens. 1619
Engraving, very fine impression; 17th century watermark, sheet 420 x 305mm (6½ x 12"). Repaired tear on right centre border and on left. Trimmed inside platemark; vertical crease.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584 - 1647). Frederick Henry was son of William the Silent, the principal leader of the Dutch struggle for independence against Spain. When his half-brother, Maurice Prince of Orange, died in 1625, Frederick became the third hereditary stadholder of the United Dutch Provinces. He married a lady-in-waiting to the exiled Queen of Bohemia. In 1641 their son, William II, married Mary, the daughter of Charles I of Great Britain. The Dutch Wars against the Spanish continued until the end of his reign. Shortly following his death in January 1648, peace was formally declared between the two countries. Engraving after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), Dutch artist and writer based in Middelburg, Zeeland at this time. Impressions of the print were purchased by the States General, the ruling executive of the United Dutch Provinces.
[Ref: 42385] £450.00
AV Venne pn. W Delphus sc. [in image lower right]
Cum Privilegiosexennio Ord. Conf. Prov. J.P. vande Venne exc. Middelburgens. 1619
Engraving, very fine impression; 17th century watermark, sheet 420 x 305mm (6½ x 12"). Repaired tear on right centre border and on left. Trimmed inside platemark; vertical crease.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584 - 1647). Frederick Henry was son of William the Silent, the principal leader of the Dutch struggle for independence against Spain. When his half-brother, Maurice Prince of Orange, died in 1625, Frederick became the third hereditary stadholder of the United Dutch Provinces. He married a lady-in-waiting to the exiled Queen of Bohemia. In 1641 their son, William II, married Mary, the daughter of Charles I of Great Britain. The Dutch Wars against the Spanish continued until the end of his reign. Shortly following his death in January 1648, peace was formally declared between the two countries. Engraving after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), Dutch artist and writer based in Middelburg, Zeeland at this time. Impressions of the print were purchased by the States General, the ruling executive of the United Dutch Provinces.
[Ref: 42385] £450.00
Hora, H. Grotius Synd: Roterod: Eiusdemq. Urb: in Conv: Ord: Holl: et Wester: Quondam Delegat. Ryui.
M.Miereveld pinx: W.Delff sculps:
W. Blaeuw Excud [Amsterdam, 1632.]
Engraving. 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Small nick in top margin.
Portrait of Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), wearing an embroidered jacket and a ruff; in an oval with skull and cartouche at the bottom with verse by Daniel Heinsius.
[Ref: 66288] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
M.Miereveld pinx: W.Delff sculps:
W. Blaeuw Excud [Amsterdam, 1632.]
Engraving. 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Small nick in top margin.
Portrait of Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), wearing an embroidered jacket and a ruff; in an oval with skull and cartouche at the bottom with verse by Daniel Heinsius.
[Ref: 66288] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Phillipus Lansbergius Gandavensis Aetatis Suae Anno LXVII. Sidera qui tersis, totumg relinquit Olmpum Monstrator aetheris novi, Iam pridem coeli vetus incola, corporis aegzi Pertaesus, et nostri satur, Umbzam animi, coelog oculos quos fixit, amicus. Sic consecrat Lansbergius. D. Heinsius.
Z. Roman exc. W Delff sculpsit.
[n.d., c.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
An oval head and shoulders portrait of Johan Philip Lansberge. With latin script by Daniel Heinsius (1580 –1655). Johan Philip Lansberge (1561 –1632) was a Dutch Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius. He is best known as the author of a set of astronomical tables, Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuæ, for predicting planetary positions
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1683.1
[Ref: 57160] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Z. Roman exc. W Delff sculpsit.
[n.d., c.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
An oval head and shoulders portrait of Johan Philip Lansberge. With latin script by Daniel Heinsius (1580 –1655). Johan Philip Lansberge (1561 –1632) was a Dutch Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius. He is best known as the author of a set of astronomical tables, Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuæ, for predicting planetary positions
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1683.1
[Ref: 57160] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ernst von Mansfeld]](jpegs/40528.jpg)
[Ernst von Mansfeld] Ernesto Principi et Comiti Mansfeldiæ, Marchioni Castelli-Novi et Butiglirlæ Baroni ab Heldrungen, Generali etc.
hanc ipsius P. effigiem a Mich. Joh. Mireveldio ad vivum depictam, et Guilielmo Jacobi Delphio coelo hac forma expressam, dedicant consecrantque iidem pictor ac sculptor.
Cum privilegio Illustr. D. D. Ordinum Generalium ad annos octo Anno Dom. MDCXXIV. [1624]
Engraving. 420 x 290mm (16½ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate.
Ernst graf von Mansfeld (c1580-1626), a German mercenary commander during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Despite being a Catholic he sided with the Protestant enemies of the Austrian Habsburgs. He fought to aid the titular king of Bohemia, Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, regain his throne, and in 1624 he visited London where James I, Frederick's father-in-law, gave him money for his efforts.
[Ref: 40528] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
hanc ipsius P. effigiem a Mich. Joh. Mireveldio ad vivum depictam, et Guilielmo Jacobi Delphio coelo hac forma expressam, dedicant consecrantque iidem pictor ac sculptor.
Cum privilegio Illustr. D. D. Ordinum Generalium ad annos octo Anno Dom. MDCXXIV. [1624]
Engraving. 420 x 290mm (16½ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate.
Ernst graf von Mansfeld (c1580-1626), a German mercenary commander during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Despite being a Catholic he sided with the Protestant enemies of the Austrian Habsburgs. He fought to aid the titular king of Bohemia, Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, regain his throne, and in 1624 he visited London where James I, Frederick's father-in-law, gave him money for his efforts.
[Ref: 40528] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)