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Desiderius Erasmus Rotterodamus. Qui Patriae lumen qui nostri gloria fech [...]
Vorsterman sculptor D.D.: Hansus Holbenius pinxit. Cum Privilegio Reg: [c.1625]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian. Erasmus prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, and also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works. Erasmus lived through the Reformation period and he consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Protestant Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road disappointed and even angered many Protestants, such as Martin Luther, as well as conservative Catholics. One of the earliest of many prints reproducing the famous 1532 portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the younger. Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), a favoured engraver of his contemporaries Rubens and Van Dyck. Despite his close relationship with Rubens (who was godfather to Vorsterman's eldest son), the engraver felt exploited by the famous painter. At one point Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life, and subsequently moved to England, where he was employed by Charles I, Thomas Howard and the Earl of Pembroke to reproduce paintings from their collections. Howard was then the owner of this picture (one of many versions of the portrait that exist but one of the only ones believed to be painted by Holbein himself). The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Published in the 'Iconographia' series of etchings after portraits by van Dyck, some of which van Dyck etched himself.
Hollstein 153 II of II
[Ref: 65764] £360.00
Vorsterman sculptor D.D.: Hansus Holbenius pinxit. Cum Privilegio Reg: [c.1625]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian. Erasmus prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, and also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works. Erasmus lived through the Reformation period and he consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Protestant Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road disappointed and even angered many Protestants, such as Martin Luther, as well as conservative Catholics. One of the earliest of many prints reproducing the famous 1532 portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the younger. Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), a favoured engraver of his contemporaries Rubens and Van Dyck. Despite his close relationship with Rubens (who was godfather to Vorsterman's eldest son), the engraver felt exploited by the famous painter. At one point Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life, and subsequently moved to England, where he was employed by Charles I, Thomas Howard and the Earl of Pembroke to reproduce paintings from their collections. Howard was then the owner of this picture (one of many versions of the portrait that exist but one of the only ones believed to be painted by Holbein himself). The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Published in the 'Iconographia' series of etchings after portraits by van Dyck, some of which van Dyck etched himself.
Hollstein 153 II of II
[Ref: 65764] £360.00
Erasmus.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Etching. Sheet 100 x 65mm (4 x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466 - 1536), Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
[Ref: 65825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1700.]
Etching. Sheet 100 x 65mm (4 x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466 - 1536), Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
[Ref: 65825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Benjamin Franklin Ne a Boston, dans la nouvelle Angelterre, le 17 Janvier 1706.
Desrayes del. le Beau sculp.
A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly, rue S.t Jaques a la Ville de Countances. A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1780]
Very fine engraving, 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"), with large margins. Faint foxing within platemark but not in image.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), facing left, without spectacles, wearing a fur hat. Set within an oval frame tied with a ribbon at the top, and mounted on a base featuring a title plate.
W 388.
[Ref: 66020] £320.00
Desrayes del. le Beau sculp.
A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly, rue S.t Jaques a la Ville de Countances. A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1780]
Very fine engraving, 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"), with large margins. Faint foxing within platemark but not in image.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), facing left, without spectacles, wearing a fur hat. Set within an oval frame tied with a ribbon at the top, and mounted on a base featuring a title plate.
W 388.
[Ref: 66020] £320.00
Gyula III, Capitaine Hongrois. Tire du Cabinet des Estampes du Roi.
Touze d. Pierre Duflos S.
A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune [n.d. c.1780].
Engraving with hand colour, 280 x 170mm (11 x 6¾"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Loss of margin top left, otherwise large margins.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 65796] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Touze d. Pierre Duflos S.
A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune [n.d. c.1780].
Engraving with hand colour, 280 x 170mm (11 x 6¾"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Loss of margin top left, otherwise large margins.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 65796] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Man resting his head in one hand.] I.](jpegs/65592.jpg)
[Man resting his head in one hand.] I. Excellentissimo Bernardo Nani P.V. in obsequentis animi monumentum D.D.D.
Jo. Baptista Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow margin lower right.
Portrait of Venetian politician and art collector Bernardo Nani (1712-61) in contemplation. The first of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.243.
[Ref: 65592] £390.00
Jo. Baptista Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow margin lower right.
Portrait of Venetian politician and art collector Bernardo Nani (1712-61) in contemplation. The first of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.243.
[Ref: 65592] £390.00
![[Woman cupping her chin in one hand.] II.](jpegs/65593.jpg)
[Woman cupping her chin in one hand.] II. Felcibus sub Asupicüs Clarissimæ Matronæ Venetæ Justinianæ de Maurocenis Gradoniæ.
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to plate in several places, small tear on right on fold.
Portrait of a young woman, probably from the powerful Venetian noble family, Morosini. The second of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.243.
[Ref: 65593] £390.00
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to plate in several places, small tear on right on fold.
Portrait of a young woman, probably from the powerful Venetian noble family, Morosini. The second of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.243.
[Ref: 65593] £390.00
![[A boy caressing a girl's face.] III.](jpegs/65594.jpg)
[A boy caressing a girl's face.] III. Clarissimo Viro Dno Dno Josepho Smith Anglo Bonarum artium Promotori et Protectori beneficentissimo in grati animi argumentum D.D.D.
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Slight creasing.
Portrait of Joseph Smith (c.1682 – 1770), commonly referred to as Consul Smith, served as the British consul in Venice from 1744 to 1760. He was a prominent patron of the arts, most notably supporting the painter Canaletto, a distinguished collector and connoisseur, financial agent for the British community in Venice, and a key figure attracting British travelers during the Grand Tour. The third of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The dedication is to Joseph Smith (c.1674-1770), the British consul in Venice 1744-60, whose art collection was bought by George III in 1761. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.247
[Ref: 65594] £480.00
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Rare etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Slight creasing.
Portrait of Joseph Smith (c.1682 – 1770), commonly referred to as Consul Smith, served as the British consul in Venice from 1744 to 1760. He was a prominent patron of the arts, most notably supporting the painter Canaletto, a distinguished collector and connoisseur, financial agent for the British community in Venice, and a key figure attracting British travelers during the Grand Tour. The third of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The dedication is to Joseph Smith (c.1674-1770), the British consul in Venice 1744-60, whose art collection was bought by George III in 1761. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.247
[Ref: 65594] £480.00
![[A man with long hair drawing on a block with a pair of dividers.] XI.](jpegs/65596.jpg)
[A man with long hair drawing on a block with a pair of dividers.] XI. Excellentissimo Petro Zen P.V. in obsequentis animi officium D.D.D.
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow margins, tear taped. Central margin right.
The ninth of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.241.
[Ref: 65596] £480.00
Jo. Bapta Piazzetta delineavit. Joannes Cattini Sculptor Venetus.
[Venice: Pasquali Press, c.1754.]
Etching, 445 x 335mm (17½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow margins, tear taped. Central margin right.
The ninth of 14 portraits in the series 'Icones ad vivum expressae', engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by the Pasquali Press in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on each portrait (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.241.
[Ref: 65596] £480.00
![[A man reading a book with a magnifying glass.] VIII.](jpegs/65595.jpg)
[A man reading a book with a magnifying glass.] VIII. A. S. Ecc.za Il Sig.or Co: Giovanni Vezzi N.V. In contrasegno del mio rispetto D.D.D.
Giambattista Piazzetta depin. Giovanni Cattini dis. ed. inc.
[Venice c.1754.]
Etching. Sheet 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at sides, tears on central crease taped.
Portrait of Giovanni Vezzi (b.1687) son of goldsmith and founder of Vezzi porcelain, Francesco Vezzi (1651–1740). Plate VIII of 'Icones ad vivum expressae', a set of 14 portraits plus frontispiece, engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by Pasquali in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numeral plate number (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.242 for first state.
[Ref: 65595] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Giambattista Piazzetta depin. Giovanni Cattini dis. ed. inc.
[Venice c.1754.]
Etching. Sheet 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at sides, tears on central crease taped.
Portrait of Giovanni Vezzi (b.1687) son of goldsmith and founder of Vezzi porcelain, Francesco Vezzi (1651–1740). Plate VIII of 'Icones ad vivum expressae', a set of 14 portraits plus frontispiece, engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. The first edition was published by Pasquali in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numeral plate number (as this example), and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line.
BM 1951,0714.242 for first state.
[Ref: 65595] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Joh Baptista Piazetta pictor, natus Venetiis. Joh. Cattini in aes incidit observatiae et grati animi ergo anno MDCCXLIII.
[Venice c.1754.]
Etching. Sheet 450 x 340mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Trimmed to plate, small stain, creasing.
A head and shoulders self portrait of Venetain painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754), the frontispiece portrait from 'Icones ad vivum expressae', accompanying 14 portraits engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Piazzetta. The first edition was published by Pasquali in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on the 14 portraits, and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line. The original drawing is at Windsor (inv. 0754).
BM 1871,0812.4246.
[Ref: 65597] £390.00
[Venice c.1754.]
Etching. Sheet 450 x 340mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Trimmed to plate, small stain, creasing.
A head and shoulders self portrait of Venetain painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754), the frontispiece portrait from 'Icones ad vivum expressae', accompanying 14 portraits engraved by Giovanni Cattini after Piazzetta. The first edition was published by Pasquali in 1743, who reprinted them in 1754 with Latin numerals on the 14 portraits, and again in 1763; in 1767 they were republished by Teodoro Viero with a new publication line. The original drawing is at Windsor (inv. 0754).
BM 1871,0812.4246.
[Ref: 65597] £390.00
Lucian the Satirist.
W.Faithorne Sculp.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait bust of Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 - after 180), Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
[Ref: 65826] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
W.Faithorne Sculp.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait bust of Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 - after 180), Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
[Ref: 65826] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Julien Offrai de la Mettrie] Sous ces traits vifs, tu vois le Maitre / Des jeux, des Ris et des bons mots...](jpegs/65740.jpg)
[Julien Offrai de la Mettrie] Sous ces traits vifs, tu vois le Maitre / Des jeux, des Ris et des bons mots...
G.F. Schmidt ad Vivum pingebat et Sculpebat.
[n.d., 1757.]
Engraving. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of French physician and philosopher Julien Offrai de la Mettrie (1709-51), within a stone oval, books and quill on a shelf in the foreground. As one of the earliest of the materialists of the French Enlightenment, he denied the existence of the soul and expounded hedonism. His views caused him to leave France to seek safety in Prussia, where he died after a gluttonous feast. Frederick the Great gave the funeral oration.
[Ref: 65740] £390.00
G.F. Schmidt ad Vivum pingebat et Sculpebat.
[n.d., 1757.]
Engraving. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of French physician and philosopher Julien Offrai de la Mettrie (1709-51), within a stone oval, books and quill on a shelf in the foreground. As one of the earliest of the materialists of the French Enlightenment, he denied the existence of the soul and expounded hedonism. His views caused him to leave France to seek safety in Prussia, where he died after a gluttonous feast. Frederick the Great gave the funeral oration.
[Ref: 65740] £390.00