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[Attack of robbers in a cave.]
[P. de Laer Pinxit. C. Visscher Fecit.]
[Amsterdam, Cornelis Visscher, c.1660.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions(?), damage in corners, old ink mss bottom right corner.
Riders attack a coach in a cavernous tunnel. The BM has a unlettered proof, but the inscriptions are below the cut here. Other impressions listed were published by Frederick de Wit and Gerard Valck. From the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), with the signature of his paternal grandfather Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), a Parisian publisher, on reverse.
[Ref: 57438] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[A stable.]
P. di Laer Pinxit Rome. [In image, upper left.] [Cornelis Visscher.]
t' Amsterdam, gedruckt bÿ Frederick de Widt, voor aan inde Calverstraet bÿ den Dam, Inde Witte Pas-Caart. [Dutch, c.1660.]
Engraving, third state with address of Frederick de Wit. Image 280 x 380mm. 11 x 15" Trimmed close to plate; on a conservation backing.
A stable within a ruined and derelict building: a tethered horse eats hay as another beside urinates profusely, while in the courtyard beyond a man attaches a saddle to the back of a horse; on the ground is a pitchfork and broom. Numbered 1 in lower right. After Pieter van Laer (1599 - 1642?).
[Ref: 18854] £180.00
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