Grosvenor Prints

[Saskia van Uylenburgh] [The Dutch Lady.]
Rembrandt pinx. Bryer excudit. Read sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.r 1.st 1776, by H. Bryer, Cornhill.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Narrow margins, foxing.
A half-length portrait in oval of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-42), Rembrandt's wife, wearing a black cape with a smocked white collar, chain and gauzy veil decorated in flowers over her head and shoulders, and drop earrings. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (1942.9.71).
CS 2, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66419] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Lady.]
[Rembrandt van Rijn. J. Spilsbury.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, title area uncleaned. Sheet size: 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾") Trimmed to platemark. Bit wrinkled.
A portrait of a young woman; bust, in an oval frame, directed to the left, tilting her chin and smiling slightly towards the viewer. She is wearing a gown with a rose at the breast, pearl earrings, a cloak and a veil.
Chaloner Smith: 40. From the Galston collection.
[Ref: 38014] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

From a Picture in the possession of Mr. Reynolds.
Fras. Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
[Sold by Ryland and Bryer Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings Amrs Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. Wonderful image, very fine with full margins, plate 330 x 226mm. 13 x 8¾".
A wonderful image of a Dutch lady with naked bosom, holding up coin in right hand.
CS: 5: before I. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14774] £480.00

From a Picture in the possession of Mr. Reynolds.
Fra.s Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
Sold by Ryland and Bryer, Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings arms Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 222mm (12¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate, some rubbing.
Portrait of a Dutch lady in a gown with a broad collar, unlaced at the bodice leaving the breasts exposed, holding up a coin and smiling towards the viewer. Possibly Lysbeth Reyniers (d.1675), who married the Dutch artist Frans Hals in 1617. She survived him by some nine years.
CS 5: i/ii.
[Ref: 23982] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Cottage by a river.]
J. Tobin 1772.
Etching, 165 x 205mm (6½ x 8"), with wide margins. Crease.
Landscape, probably from a Dutch source, by the little-known etcher J. Tobin (1770s, fl.). As Joseph Strutt writes in his biographical dictionary of engravers: 'he was a native of England, and etched several small plates of landscapes from H. Grim. We have also some small tinted plates from him, from Both, Ostade, and other painters'. Probably from a volume of Tobin's etchings.
[Ref: 40659] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cottage with path running alongside]
[probably by J. Tobin, c.1772]
Etching, platemark 160 x 195mm (6¼ x 7¾"). Uncut sheet with very large margins.
Landscape, probably from a Dutch source and by the little-known etcher J. Tobin (1770s, fl.). As Joseph Strutt writes of Tobin in his biographical dictionary of engravers: 'he was a native of England, and etched several small plates of landscapes from H. Grim. We have also some small tinted plates from him, from Both, Ostade, and other painters'. Probably from a volume of Tobin's etchings.
[Ref: 40665] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century. British Museum Prints and Drawings Series.
David Freedberg.
A Colonnade Book. Published by British Museum Publications Limited. 1980 David Freedberg.
8vo (254 x 196mm. 10 x 7¾"), green cloth gilt with d/w. Dustjacket rubbed and scuffed.
In this illustrated book, David Freedberg discusses a wide range of Dutch landscape prints, and assesses their artistic and historical significance, describes their technique, and outlines the literary and historical background to their origins and development. He highlights the relation between realism and fantasty in the prints.
[Ref: 22086] £60.00

Armer Mannus ego per Corbem fallere cogor Cor mócht in tausent springere frusta meum, Woh ungluck ist da kompt bald schmach Ich bin hindurch komm du bald nach.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Copper engraving. Image 82 x 120mm. 7¼ x 4¾".
From a collection dedicated to the Dutch young women. A dutch woman hangs on as a young man falls. This is a possible re-enactment of the fall of Icarus.
[Ref: 16317] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Man of War & Frigate, with a Convoy.
London. Pub.d Sept.r 1 1788, by R. Pollard Braynes Row, Spa Fields.
Mezzotint printed in colour, platemark 335 x 455mm (13¼ x 18"). Large margins on 3 sides. Cut to plate at bottom.
Unidentified Dutch ships.
[Ref: 37040] £320.00

[Dutch Market Woman.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade?]
[n.d., c.1790.]
A fine mezzotint with original colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
A woman holding a fish, surrounded by produce, probably after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13840] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

a 4th. Rate Dutch men of war, English built hawling up her forsail. Un Vaisseau de Guerre Hollandois du 4e: Rang Construit a l'angloise, Carguant sa Misaine. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 4e: Rang op zyn Engels gebouwt zym Fok op Gyende.
Pretrus Schenk. Exc. [n.d. c.1700].
A mint engraving, 17th century watermark. 215 x 345mm (8½" x 13½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A warship built by the English for the Dutch navy in choppy seas
[Ref: 55458] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Un Vaisseau de Guerre Hollandois du 4e: Rang Construit a l'Angloise, venant al'Ancre. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 4e: Rang, op zyn Engels gebouwt, ten Anker komende. a 4th. Rate Dutch men of war, English built koming to an Anchor.
Pretrus Schenk. Exc.
[n.d. c.1700].
Line engraving. 216 x 343mm. 8½" x 13½". Mint condition.
[Ref: 8505] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Merry Making. From an Original Picture of the same size in the Collection of Willm. Baillie, Esqr.
Brackenberg Pinxt. Ryland Sculpt.
Publish'd Feby. 1. 1775, by W.W. Ryland Engraver to his Majesty, No. 159, near Somerset House, Strand, London.
Engraving, plate 222 x 246mm (8¾ x 9¾"). Large margins. Corners slightly worn.
Interior of a tavern with peasants drinking; a fiddler to the right.
[Ref: 38405] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Dutch Nursery.]
[after Adriaen van Ostade.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 135 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed to image.
A humble interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place.
See BM 2010,7081.991 for a Sayer & Bennett mezzotint of the same scene, with the title above.
[Ref: 65601] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Peasant.]
A. Brower Pin.t. T. Burke fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 18, 1771, by the Proprietor W.m W. Ryland No. 27, Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare scratch letter proof before title. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease in plate bottom right.
A rustic man, clutching a broken pitcher, giggling.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 54228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Peasants] Ni pateat fundus, nova massica non tibi fundo, / In funde cordis namque profunda latent.
A. Ostaden pinxit. J. Suyderhoef sculpsit.
F. de Wit excudit [n.d., c.1670].
Engraving. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed close to plate, small tear repaired.
A peasant couple seated at a table, the man holding a jug and about to fill the woman's wine-glass, nuts and smoking accessories on the table. Originally published by Clement de Jonghe.
[Ref: 62225] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Puzzle print with portraits of the Dutch royal family] Portraits in Profile van H.H.K.K.M.M. de Koning en Koningin den Nederlanden, Z.R.H. de Prins van Oranje [...]
In Amsterdam by E. Maaskamp nerens het Paleis [c.1820]
Very scarce aquatint printed in colours with engraved text, platemark 285 x 245mm (11¼ x 9½").
Picture of a rose within which is concealed seven profile portraits of seven members of the Dutch royal family (one of whom, Anna Paulowna, is also represented in a separate portrait verso). With verses below.
[Ref: 38950] £320.00

(Nederlandsche Stoompost, 6 Junij 1847.)
H.W fecit. [within image]
[c.1847]
Very scarce lithograph, sheet 225 x 310mm (8¾ x 12¼").
Dutch print of steam train, presumably carrying mail, travelling through the countryside filled with farmland and windmills. Key underneath image explaining parts of the railway.
[Ref: 57080] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Reformed Church] Gedenk-zuil op de in hun Ampt herstelde Predikanten te Amsteldam. [Opgedragen a an de Gereformeerde Gemeente van Jezus Christus to Amsteldam.]
J. van Meurs del. N. v.d. Meer Jun.r Sculp.
J. et H. Brandt Excud. [n.d., 1804.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 425 x 300mm (10¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed close to image and losing second part of title, small tears.
A column with twelve silhouette medallion portraits of ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church in Amsterdam, named in a key, surrounded by allegorical figures.
[Ref: 67821] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Paisane Drolatre, Grasse et Ronde, Espouse a L'Avenir feconde. [The ridiculous peasant-girl, vulgar and fat, future fertile wife.]
J. van Sasse fecit.
Wilh: Koning exc. [n.d., c.1720s.]
Etching with engraved lettering set into decorative engraved border printed from separate plate, sheet 265 x 175mm. 10½ x 7". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page.
A grotesque caricature of a country girl sniffing a bunch of flowers, villagers and their houses in the background. Text in German, French and Dutch below. Numbered '37' in image to right, presumably from a satirical series. Engraved by Joost van Sasse, published probably in Amsterdam by Wilhelm Koningh.
[Ref: 11715] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Dutch school] L'Ecole hollandoise. / Gravé d'après le Tableau Original de François Eisen le Pere de meme grandeur
F Eisen Pinx J. Ouvrier Sculp
A Paris chez l'Auteur Place Maubert chez Mr Beliot M.d Bonnetier au Soleil d'or.
Fine engraving, sheet 515 x 380mm (20¼ x 15"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Detailed classroom scene with students reading, writing, weeping and playing. After a 1760 painting by François Eisen.
[Ref: 45076] £480.00

[Dutch Traveller in an African Settlement.]
Engraving. Sheet: 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6''). Trimmed to platemark.
A scene showing a Dutch traveller conversing in an African settlement.
[Ref: 47955] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Ancien Soldat Hollandois.
de Gaspar Ruts.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 278 x 171mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2140] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Songster. The Clownish Boor_ the Evening long, Cons o'er and o'er his fav'rite Song:- Meanwhile devoid of Care or fear, He quaffs his jug of Ale or Beer.
[n.d. 1790].
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint, 155 x 115mm. A fine impression.
[Ref: 13459] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Dutch Sportsman. Le Chasseur Hollandois.
Printed by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle St.
Published, London July 1828, by A. Friedel 34, Surry Street, Strand.
Framed lithograph. Sheet size: 210 x 270mm. (8¼ x 10½"). Cut. Title and publication line glued to reverse of sheet.
A sportsman sits by an arched frame of a window with his shot gun behind him; on the sill is a dead fowl and a jug to the right, which accompanies the glass he holds in his left hand, perhaps a wine glass! Possibly after Gerrit Dou (1613-75), Dutch Golden Age painter who frequently used windows as framing devices in his paintings.
[Ref: 30294] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Tippler.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade?]
[n.d., c.1790.]
A fine mezzotint with original colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
The interior of an inn, with a man raising his glass, pipe in his left hand, probably after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13839] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Toper. Specimens of Art, Plate 24.
D. Teniers Pinx.t. J. Rogers, Sc.
London, Published by J. M.cCormick, 68 Paternoster Row [n.d., c.1835].
Mezzotint with etching on steel. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed.
A Dutchman in rustic dress raising a roemer glass. Begind a man lights his pipe. A drinking scene.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66277] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch topers.]
DT [monogram of David Tenniers] J. v. B. [Jan van der Bruggen]
[Brussels, Jan van der Bruggen, n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins, laid on album paper.
An untitled scene of the interior of a Dutch tavern, centred on a man with tankard and pipe. In the background another man urinates into a bowl. Engraved and published by Jan van der Bruggen (c.1648-90) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 52794] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vivitur Parvo Bene.
AV Ostade pinxit. Corn. Visscher fecit.
Clemendt de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1655].
Engraving with etching. 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides.
The topers: two boors and an elderly woman drink together, one man clutching a large clay jug and the woman raising her glass.
[Ref: 62253] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Topers.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade?]
[n.d., c.1790.]
A fine mezzotint with original colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
Three men in an inn, smoking & drinking, probably after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13838] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Dutch Trawlers Landing Fish at Egmont.
Painted by E.W. Cooke R.A. Engraved by Aurthur Willmore. Printed by M.Queen.
Published by the Art Union of London, 444 West Strand, London, 1872. Art Union of London 1874.
Engraving 575 x 660mm (22½ x 26"), with large margins. Some spotting, surface abrasions, crease.
Two boats at anchor just off a beach.
[Ref: 62662] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Dutch Tulips.
Prited by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Street.
[n.d. c.1835]
Scarce hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Very faint foxing.
Two women lean on the ledge of a windowsill next to a potted plant of tulips. Lithographic printers William Kohler and L.M. Lefevre were in business together at 52 Newman Street, London circa 1833-1835. Kohler set up on his own by 1838 at the latest, leaving Lefevre to trade as L.M. Lefevre.
[Ref: 68724] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch village scene]
Grimm inv Tobin sculp.t 1771
Rare etching, 220 x 310mm (8½ x 12¼"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Crease through centre. Small hole in trees.
Landscape after Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1733-94) by the little-known etcher J. Tobin (1770s, fl.). Grimm was a Swiss painter who moved to England around the time this print was made, where he became known for his versatility, producing illustrations to Shakespeare, topographical views, caricatures, and drawings of antiquities. As Joseph Strutt writes of Tobin in his biographical dictionary of engravers: 'he was a native of England, and etched several small plates of landscapes from H. Grim. We have also some small tinted plates from him, from Both, Ostade, and other painters'. Probably from a volume of Tobin's etchings.
[Ref: 68273] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mynheer van Sour-Crout.
Published by Oliver and Boyd Edin. [n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Framed. Laid on paper, creased and stained.
A caricature of a Dutch fisherman, hands in the pockets of his breeches, smoking a pipe, standing next to a barrel of herring. Oliver and Boyd, a partnership of Thomas Oliver (1775–1853) and George Boyd (d.1843), was founded in Edinburgh c.1807, as a printer, publisher and binder. The quality of their work increased, gaining the firm a reputation for educational and medical textbook publishing. In 1896 the firm was taken over and was later owned by both the Financial Times and Longmans, before finally ceasing trading in 1990.
[Ref: 66385] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d. Mr Dutens A.M. F.R.S.
Fisher Fecit.
Published Jan.y 1st 1777, for W.Shropshire, No.158, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), large margins.
Portrait of Louis Duten (1730 -1812), French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent.
CS 15.
[Ref: 68266] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Mlle. Duthé. Le Menuet. 4. L'Opera.
Guérard del. E. Desmaisons lith.
Paris, publié par J. Bulla et F. Delarue, 10 rue JJ Rousseau. Imp. Lemercier. London pub.15 June 1844 by the Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berners St. Oxford St.
Fine coloured lithograph, rare. 325 x 249mm. 12¾ x 9¾". Cut.
Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé (1748-1830) was a celebrated French courtesan. After quitting a French convent, she became the mistress of wealthy English financier George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. She then became a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet. From 'Les annales de l'Opéra ou Recueil des premières danseuses'.
[Ref: 23937] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Ann Dutton.
Hopwood sc.
Published by Ogle, Duncan & Comp.y, Patermost Row, June 1st. 1815.
Engraving. 180 x 105mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed to platemark
Head and shoulders portrait of Anne Dutton (1692-1765), inclined to the left. Dutton was an English poet and wrote prolifically and zealously on religion from a Baptist point of view.
[Ref: 53841] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Pauline Duvernay.
A.E. Chalon R.A. R.J. Lane A.R.A.
[London: J. Mitchell, 1837.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 310 x 230mm. 12¼ x 9". Creasing; margins trimmed.
Pauline (Yolande Marie Louise) Duvernay (1813 - 1894), dancer, looking over her right shoulder, in costume, holding castanets; in the first London production of "Le Diable Boîteux" ("The Devil on Two Sticks", i.e. crutches), 1836, choreographed by Jean Coralli. Duvernay retired the following year, aged 25 and at the height of her career, to marry Stephens Lyne-Stephens, M.P., thought to be the richest commoner in England at that time. By Richard James Lane, after Alfred Edward Chalon (1780 - 1860).
Harvard p.402, 1.
[Ref: 24287] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mademoiselle Duvernay, Dancing the Cachoucha. Presented with No. 1 of the Wonder, June 24th 1837.
A rare lithograph. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Bottom right corner rebuilt, outside image.
A portrait of popular ballerina Pauline Duvernay (1812-1894), shown in the role of Florinda, the heroine of Jean Caralli's 'Le Diable Boîteux'. The Cachoucha, a Spanish dance with origins in Cuba, is the highlight of the ballet. Duvernay was one of Queen Victoria's favourite dancers.
[Ref: 59161] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a Dwarf.] Dedié à Monsieur Jean Udny Consul General de Sa Majesté Britannique a Livourne par son tres humble et obëisante Serviteur Louis Saller. Le Tableau Original se trouve dans le Cabinet du même Consul Udny. Haut 5.Pieds 9 Pouces Anglois Large 4. Pieds 4. Pouces.
Peint par Salvator Rosa. Gravé par Louis Saller.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare engraving. Plate: 390 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate mark. Slight stain below title on left.
A portrait of a dwarf shown begging in the street. After a painting by artist Salvator Rosa in the collection of consul of Legorno John Udny (1727-1800) who was a merchant who dealt and collected works of art.
[Ref: 46669] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The celebrated Mons La Grandeur a famous french Lawyer eminent for his perfrect knowledge of the Practice of all the Courts of Justice.
A South sculp [c1750].
Engraving, platemark 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"). Large margins.
French lawyer holding a court register. Edward J. Wood in 'Giants and Dwarfs' (first edition 1868) lists the print as a 'whole-length portrait of a dwarf'.
[Ref: 38626] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Two scenes with dwarfs.]
[Anon, c.1680.]
Two etchings, each approx. 115 x 100mm (4½ x 4"). Both trimmed around image and laid on backing card.
Two scenes of dwarfs, one as a ratcatcher and another drinking. There was a popular interest across the continent for scenes of what were sometimes described as 'Lilliputian characters' in the late 17th-early 18th century.
[Ref: 36628] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Nine caricatured dwarfs.] No 94.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 425 x 350mm (16¾ x 13¾").
Nine caricatures of dwarfs, arranged three by three, copied from the ''Il Callotto resuscitato, oder, Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'' by Elias Baeck.
[Ref: 64318] £360.00

Squire & Sally. [&] Damon and Phillis.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Scarce pair of coloured engravings. Each sheet 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, with loss of text, some other damage.
Lines of poetry satirised with caricatures of dwarf lovers. Squire & Sally is probably copied from Arne's "Thomas & Sally" an opera. Damon & Phillis is a crude commonplace woodcut copy after the mezzotint in the BM published by R. Sayer.2010.7081.1714. 'Squire and Sally' has four lines from Thomas Arne's 'Love in a Village': ''Young I am, and sore affraid: / would you hurt a harmless maid. / Lead an innocent astray. / Tempt me not, kind sir, I pray''. 'Damon and Phillis' has lines from 'Lovely Nymph', of uncertain attribution, but credited to both J.J. Rousseau and James Oswald: 'Lovely nymph assuage my anguish, / At your feet a tender swain / Prays you will not let him languish; One kind look wou'd ease his pain''.
[Ref: 54488] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Series of 30 Dwarfs.]
[English, n.d., c.1730.]
Series of 30 dwarfs on 10 sheets, scarce English version. Each sheet: 290 x 125mm (11½ x 5"). Some damage.
A series of satirical portraits of dwarfs, many based on Martin Engelbrecht's 1710 series 'Het Dwergentooneel'.
[Ref: 42722] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Blassl Broatgosch, Juramentirter Nachtwachter undt Rumorwachs Adjunct, in würcklicher function 34
[by Martin Engelbrecht.]
Cum Priv. S.C.M [Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, c.1710.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, library blind stamp on bottom right corner.
The dwarf Blassl Broatgosch, night watchman. Plate 34 from 'Het Dwergentooneel' by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, with portraits of famous dwarfs in the style of Jacques Callot's 'Gobbi' or 'Lilliputian' figures. The portrait was also published within elaborate borders as 'Il Callotto resusciato oder Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'.
Rijksmuseum: FMH 3695-a/34.
[Ref: 37572] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Iupanschku Ferenz. Richter auss der Raübau, führnehmer Ochssen Iubilir, und Vice Admiral der Ungrischen heü Flotta 43
[by Martin Engelbrecht.]
[Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, c.1710.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, library blind stamp on bottom right corner.
The dwarf Iupanschku Ferenz, ploughman and vice-admiral of the Hungarian navy! Plate 43 from 'Het Dwergentooneel' by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, with portraits of famous dwarfs in the style of Jacques Callot's 'Gobbi' or 'Lilliputian' figures. The portrait was also published within elaborate borders as 'Il Callotto resusciato oder Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'.
Rijksmuseum: FMH 3695-a/43.
[Ref: 37571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mathias Flecksippl, faisant le bel humeur aux jours maigres. 28
[by Martin Engelbrecht.]
[Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, c.1710.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, library blind stamp on bottom right corner.
A dwarf comic actor, a broken jug on his head, carrying a shepherd's crook. Plate 28 from 'Het Dwergentooneel' by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, with portraits of famous theatrical dwarfs in the style of Jacques Callot's 'Gobbi' or 'Lilliputian' figures. The portrait was also published within elaborate borders as 'Il Callotto resusciato oder Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'.
Rijksmuseum: FMH 3695-a/28
[Ref: 37564] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Riepl Gleichdron, Approbierter und Privilegierter Sauschneider, und Spanischer äpfell-Abaldator. 41
[by Martin Engelbrecht.]
[Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, c.1710.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, library blind stamp on bottom right corner.
The dwarf Veith Knollinger, pig-slaughterer. Plate 41 from 'Het Dwergentooneel' by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, with portraits of famous dwarfs in the style of Jacques Callot's 'Gobbi' or 'Lilliputian' figures. The portrait was also published within elaborate borders as 'Il Callotto resusciato oder Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'.
Rijksmuseum: FMH 3695-a/41.
[Ref: 37568] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Malper Höllriglin... 32
[by Martin Engelbrecht.]
[Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, c.1710.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, library blind stamp on bottom right corner.
The dwarf actress Malper Höllriglin as an angry landlady with a burning piece of wood. Plate 32 from 'Het Dwergentooneel' by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, with portraits of famous theatrical dwarfs in the style of Jacques Callot's 'Gobbi' or 'Lilliputian' figures. The portrait was also published within elaborate borders as 'Il Callotto resusciato oder Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'.
Rijksmuseum: FMH 3695-a/32.
[Ref: 37566] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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