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![[James Ramsay]](jpegs/42903.jpg)
[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus [...]
[Engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius, 1636]
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed, possibly losing text; folds; tipped into album sheet.
James Ramsay (1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. Copy in reverse of a print engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius.
[Ref: 42903] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius, 1636]
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed, possibly losing text; folds; tipped into album sheet.
James Ramsay (1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. Copy in reverse of a print engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius.
[Ref: 42903] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[James Ramsay]](jpegs/43121.jpg)
[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus, Gen Mai. Anno Ætat MDCXXVI.
Johann: Cressius fec: Sebast: Furck ad vivum sculpit.
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Collector's stamp of Edward Wenman Martin on verso. Thread margins, wear at top of image, signs of damage to the printing plate.
Portrait of James Ramsay (known as 'Black Ramsay', 1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service, engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius in 1636, two years before Ramsay's death. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. However Hanau was attacked and taken in 1638: Ramsay, wounded, died in prison soon after. The collection of Edward Wenman Martin warranted a special mention by Chaloner Smith when it came up at auction (Sotheby's 1854-5): apparently Martin ''had obtained an extraordinary number of the very great rarities amongst the English portraits, but unfortunately, did not preserve all his prints with proper care; indeed, he is said to have permitted a favourite monkey to handle them, so that prices, even for those uninjured in what the catalogue calls their ''unadorned state'' were not very high''.
Lugt: 914.
[Ref: 43121] £320.00
Johann: Cressius fec: Sebast: Furck ad vivum sculpit.
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Collector's stamp of Edward Wenman Martin on verso. Thread margins, wear at top of image, signs of damage to the printing plate.
Portrait of James Ramsay (known as 'Black Ramsay', 1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service, engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius in 1636, two years before Ramsay's death. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. However Hanau was attacked and taken in 1638: Ramsay, wounded, died in prison soon after. The collection of Edward Wenman Martin warranted a special mention by Chaloner Smith when it came up at auction (Sotheby's 1854-5): apparently Martin ''had obtained an extraordinary number of the very great rarities amongst the English portraits, but unfortunately, did not preserve all his prints with proper care; indeed, he is said to have permitted a favourite monkey to handle them, so that prices, even for those uninjured in what the catalogue calls their ''unadorned state'' were not very high''.
Lugt: 914.
[Ref: 43121] £320.00
![[Allegorical print with town view of Filakovo, Slovakia in background]](jpegs/46384.jpg)
[Allegorical print with town view of Filakovo, Slovakia in background] Nimb dich nicht mehr an, als du kanst.
[Sebastian Furck, c.1625]
[Frankfurt am Main: Eberhard Kieser, 1623-32.]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
One of 830 emblematic views made for Daniel Meisner's (1585-c.1625) 'Thesaurus philopoliticus', also called 'Politisches Schatzkästlein', published in two volumes, 1623-26 and 1627-32. Each volume contained eight parts of 52 prints per part (there is one part containing merely 50 prints). Kieser made some of the etchings himself; others were made by Sebastian Furck, Georg Keller, Matthäus Merian and Johann Eckard Löffler among others.
[Ref: 46384] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
[Sebastian Furck, c.1625]
[Frankfurt am Main: Eberhard Kieser, 1623-32.]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
One of 830 emblematic views made for Daniel Meisner's (1585-c.1625) 'Thesaurus philopoliticus', also called 'Politisches Schatzkästlein', published in two volumes, 1623-26 and 1627-32. Each volume contained eight parts of 52 prints per part (there is one part containing merely 50 prints). Kieser made some of the etchings himself; others were made by Sebastian Furck, Georg Keller, Matthäus Merian and Johann Eckard Löffler among others.
[Ref: 46384] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)