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[Procession Regatta.] 14.
S. Savrÿ Sculp. S. de Vlieger inventor.
[n.d. c.1638.]
Etching. Plate 297 x 393mm (11¾ x 15½"). Damaged with repaired wormholes.
Procession on the Rokin with mock naval fights. Several small vessels in foreground, a boat with trumpeters in right foreground, a large crowd onlooking from the river-banks in background and from a bridge at left, a classical building on an island at right; after Simon de Vlieger. Illustration to Caspar Barlaeus' "Medicea Hospes" (Amsterdam: 1638). This is one from a series of sixteen plates showing the festivals and ceremonies given to Marie de Medici by the city of Amsterdam during her visit from 31 August to 5 September 1638. They were published by Blaeu in 1638 in Kaspar van Baerle's book on the festivities 'Medicea Hospes'.
[Ref: 28696] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Tempest. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying Master, master, we Perish. From the Original Picture, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Clive. Size of Picture 4F, 0I by 5F, 5I in Length. St. Luke, Chap. VIII. Ver.24. Vol: II. No.63.
J. de Vlieger pinxit. John Boydell excudit 1773. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
Published March 15th, 1773, by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 457 x 554mm (18 x 21¾"). Very large margins.
A boat struggles against the rising waves; with a torn and broken sail, the passengers cling on for their lives. Atmospheric storm scene. Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38171] £420.00
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