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Abdolominus Wie spiehlt nicht offt das Gluck [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
This scene probably relates to the play 'Abdolominus' by French playwright Gabriel-Francois Le Jay (1657-1734). In this play, Alexander the Great appoints his distant relative Abdolomines king of Sidon. Abdolomines preferred to live a simple life, and here he is offered the crown while he dwells in a splendid natural setting. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33168] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
This scene probably relates to the play 'Abdolominus' by French playwright Gabriel-Francois Le Jay (1657-1734). In this play, Alexander the Great appoints his distant relative Abdolomines king of Sidon. Abdolomines preferred to live a simple life, and here he is offered the crown while he dwells in a splendid natural setting. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33168] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Hercules So bald der Hercules [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. / B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
The twelfth and most difficult of Hercules' Labours: he was instructed by Eurystheus to go to the Underworld and kidnap Cerberus, the beast guarding the entrance to Hades. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J.E. Nilson inv et del. / B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
The twelfth and most difficult of Hercules' Labours: he was instructed by Eurystheus to go to the Underworld and kidnap Cerberus, the beast guarding the entrance to Hades. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Phalaris Das Kunst Stuck welches / hier Perillus hat erdacht [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower centre of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching with very large margins, sheet 340 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼").
Phalaris of Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily). Phalaris was a tyrant renowned for his cruelty. Here he watches a small animal being devoured, while in the background is the infamous brazen bull. This was a bronze bull, hollow, and with a door in one side, used to execute criminals by roasting them to death. Here the sculptor Perillos, who made the device, is put into the device to test it (he was withdrawn before dying, and thrown from the top of a hill instead). Phalaris, however, later met his end inside the brazen bull after he was overthrown by Telemachus. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33174] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower centre of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching with very large margins, sheet 340 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼").
Phalaris of Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily). Phalaris was a tyrant renowned for his cruelty. Here he watches a small animal being devoured, while in the background is the infamous brazen bull. This was a bronze bull, hollow, and with a door in one side, used to execute criminals by roasting them to death. Here the sculptor Perillos, who made the device, is put into the device to test it (he was withdrawn before dying, and thrown from the top of a hill instead). Phalaris, however, later met his end inside the brazen bull after he was overthrown by Telemachus. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33174] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Pythagoras. N.25 Magnus Philosophus tanta apud suos Auctoriate ut Auditoribus fuerit satis: Ipse dixit suis.
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Le Printemps. Der Frühling. Un beau bouquet de fleurs me fait un grand plaisir, Et je de tout mon coeur à mon amant le donne. Ah ! quand à mon coté, pour me bien divertir, Il conte ses amours, alors je le couronne. Der Blumen bunter Schmuck macht un=gemein vergnügt, Wenn Sich ein schönes Kind an selbigen ergözet, Und es, wenn Coridon an seiner Seite ligt, Durch einen Liebes-Trieb ihm einen Kranz aufsezet.
Joh. Esaias Nilson inv. et delin. Ioh. Phil. Koch sculps et excud. a.v.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 425mm (13¼" x 16¾"). Fine impression.
A fine depiction of Spring, with two couples courting in a garden looked upon by putti, within a foliate border. Engraved and published by Johann Philipp Koch (1716-1796).
[Ref: 8495] £420.00
Joh. Esaias Nilson inv. et delin. Ioh. Phil. Koch sculps et excud. a.v.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 425mm (13¼" x 16¾"). Fine impression.
A fine depiction of Spring, with two couples courting in a garden looked upon by putti, within a foliate border. Engraved and published by Johann Philipp Koch (1716-1796).
[Ref: 8495] £420.00