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![[Litis Abusus plate 1] [Egoism dispels the Virtues] Les Abus du Proces. Misbruyck vant Proces.](jpegs/66765.jpg)
[Litis Abusus plate 1] [Egoism dispels the Virtues] Les Abus du Proces. Misbruyck vant Proces.
[after Hendrik Goltzius] Theodor. Galle sculp.
J. Galle excud. [n.d., c.1595.]
Engraving. 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crease with tear in margin.
Allegorical figures of Mine and Thine dispell Concord, Love, Peace, and the Fear of God. The first in a series of eight plates critiquing the greed and deceit of litigation, with text in Latin, Dutch & French. Legal interest.
State with French text added. Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66765] £460.00
[after Hendrik Goltzius] Theodor. Galle sculp.
J. Galle excud. [n.d., c.1595.]
Engraving. 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crease with tear in margin.
Allegorical figures of Mine and Thine dispell Concord, Love, Peace, and the Fear of God. The first in a series of eight plates critiquing the greed and deceit of litigation, with text in Latin, Dutch & French. Legal interest.
State with French text added. Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66765] £460.00
![[Litis Abusus plate 2] [Above Commercial Law] Invida Fraus, turpis Fallacia, Scriptor aberrans...](jpegs/66766.jpg)
[Litis Abusus plate 2] [Above Commercial Law] Invida Fraus, turpis Fallacia, Scriptor aberrans...
[after Hendrik Goltzius][Adr. Collaert sculp.]
[J. Galle excud.] [n.d., c.1595.]
Engraving. 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crease, tear in margin.
Two merchants conclude a trade agreement on a quay, shaking hands as one one swears an oath. The personifications of Fraus (Fraud) and Falsehood (Fallacia) accompany them. A blindfolded (and therefore unknowing) notary records the (false) agreement. The second in a series of eight plates critiquing the greed and deceit of litigation, with text in Latin, Dutch & French.
State with French text engraved over insciptions. Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66766] £520.00
[after Hendrik Goltzius][Adr. Collaert sculp.]
[J. Galle excud.] [n.d., c.1595.]
Engraving. 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crease, tear in margin.
Two merchants conclude a trade agreement on a quay, shaking hands as one one swears an oath. The personifications of Fraus (Fraud) and Falsehood (Fallacia) accompany them. A blindfolded (and therefore unknowing) notary records the (false) agreement. The second in a series of eight plates critiquing the greed and deceit of litigation, with text in Latin, Dutch & French.
State with French text engraved over insciptions. Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66766] £520.00
Amores Naturales. Ex. Plinio Lib. 36. Cap. 5. Varroni docto celebratum opus Arcesilia, Pulchre haec, Spectator, picta Tabella refert. Marmoreo lapidj torua est incisa Leaena, Parte omni aligeris cincta Cupidinibus. [...]
Ioan. Stradanus delineabat. Theodor. Galle Sculp. Phl.s Galle excud.
Antwerp, [n.d. c.1600]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate. Some minor creasing.
An allegorical scene of Natural Love in which a group of putti play with a marble lion sculpted by Arcesilaus, celebrated for his art throughout Rome in the first century BCE. This scene is from Pliny the Elder's 'Natural History' book 36 chapter 4, rather than 5 as the inscription claims.
[Ref: 54098] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Ioan. Stradanus delineabat. Theodor. Galle Sculp. Phl.s Galle excud.
Antwerp, [n.d. c.1600]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate. Some minor creasing.
An allegorical scene of Natural Love in which a group of putti play with a marble lion sculpted by Arcesilaus, celebrated for his art throughout Rome in the first century BCE. This scene is from Pliny the Elder's 'Natural History' book 36 chapter 4, rather than 5 as the inscription claims.
[Ref: 54098] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Sappho. 129. Apud Cardinalem Farnesium in nomismate argenteo.
[Theodoor Galle.]
[Antwerpen, 1598.]
Engraving. 140 x 106mm. 5½ x 4¼".
Sappho (c.630 - 570BC), ancient Greek lyric poet. Taken from Theodoor Galle's "Illustrium imagines ex antiquis marmoribus nomismatib. et gemmis expressae quae extant Romae maior pars apud Fulvium Ursinum", a collection of historical and ancient portraits; and classical antiquities. Theodoor Galle (1571-1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver. He became a member of the Guild of St Luke in 1595 and deacon in 1609.
[Ref: 17817] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Theodoor Galle.]
[Antwerpen, 1598.]
Engraving. 140 x 106mm. 5½ x 4¼".
Sappho (c.630 - 570BC), ancient Greek lyric poet. Taken from Theodoor Galle's "Illustrium imagines ex antiquis marmoribus nomismatib. et gemmis expressae quae extant Romae maior pars apud Fulvium Ursinum", a collection of historical and ancient portraits; and classical antiquities. Theodoor Galle (1571-1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver. He became a member of the Guild of St Luke in 1595 and deacon in 1609.
[Ref: 17817] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Hubert van Eyck]](jpegs/43314.jpg)
[Hubert van Eyck] Huberto ab Eyck, Joannis Fratri; Pictori. Quas modo communes cum fratre Huberte, merenti / Attribuit laudes nostra Thalia tibi [...] 1.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jan van Eyck]](jpegs/43315.jpg)
[Jan van Eyck] Joannes ab Eyck Pictor. Ille ego, qui laetos oleo de semine lini /Expresso docui princeps miscere colores [...] 2.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), painter and illuminator best known for his completion of the Ghent altarpiece and his double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami ('the Arnolfini Marriage') now in London's National Gallery. Third state of a plate first published in 1572. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), painter and illuminator best known for his completion of the Ghent altarpiece and his double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami ('the Arnolfini Marriage') now in London's National Gallery. Third state of a plate first published in 1572. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)