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[Gypsies stopped outside a tavern]
[Gypsies stopped outside a tavern] Vous qui prenez plaisir en leurs paroles / Gardez vos blanc, vos testons, et pistolles.
Callot f. [c.1625] Bit later.
Etching, sheet 125 x 235mm (5 x 9¼"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Gypsies outside a tavern; fortune-tellers in middle-ground; figures climbing into the tavern through a window; others running away with stolen goods in background. One of a set of four plates depicting gypsies (then known as 'Egyptians', from which the word derives) by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers. The text seems to suggest that those who take pleasure in the entertainment provided by gypsies should be careful with their possessions- including their guns. British Museum cataloguing for the series suggests that it was produced after Callot returned to his native Nancy from Florence (where he spent several years) in 1621. A preparatory drawing for one of the set (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) bears a watermark indicating the paper was from Lorraine.
[Ref: 42248]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...
[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...
Jac. Callot fec.
Con: Meyer fecit et excudit. [Engraved c.1680 but much later.]
Engraving. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"), with very large margins. Impression weak, printer's crease centre of image.
A night scene, with the Prodigal Son playing cards by candle-light, engraved by Conrad Meyer (1618-89) after Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635) .
[Ref: 55348]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Christ Shown to the People]
[Christ Shown to the People] Purpurea quid opus ueste? he num cernis ur illi / Onmia purpureo membra cruore rubenr.t
Callot f [in image; c.1620]
Engraving, platemark 110 x 215mm (4¼ x 8½"). Glued to Album sheet at margins.
Plate from a set by Jacques Callot depicting episodes from the Passion, designed in Florence and engraved between 1619 and 1624. There are seven plates in the set, although preparatory drawings suggest the engraver originally planned more. Callot (1592-1635) was one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers, bringing combining elegance and (in his 'Miseries and Misfortunes of War') grotesquerie.
[Ref: 46004]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta festa rapresentata in Firenze Nel Fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1.6.1.9.
Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta festa rapresentata in Firenze Nel Fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1.6.1.9.
Edouard Eomen sc. Jacomo Callot Inv.
[n.d. c.1639.]
Etching and engraving. 210 x 296mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed
Early copy of Jacques Callot's printed fan showing the ceremonial Battle between the guilds of weavers and dyers on the Arno in 1619, in which they fought for possession of an artificial hill in the centre of the river. Callot's print was commissioned by the Grand Duke before the event and distributed to spectators. One, mounted on card for use as a fan, can be seen held aloft by a spectator seated on the right side of the volute which forms the border. Etched by Edouard Ecqman (1639, fl), who produced copies of many of Callot's prints.
Meaume 617 (copy); Lieure 302 (copy 1).
[Ref: 28918]   £380.00  
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