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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Charles II as a young boy.]](jpegs/65049.jpg)
[Charles II as a young boy.]
W Vaillant fec: et Exc. [after Anthony van Dyck.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Scarce mezzotint. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Small margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Charles as a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, hands resting on a cushion. A detail of a painting of the Royal Family, with Charles leaning on a large dog rather than a cushion. The plate was recycled, with the Rembrandt inscription lower left a remnant.
Hollstein 165.
[Ref: 65049] £480.00
W Vaillant fec: et Exc. [after Anthony van Dyck.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Scarce mezzotint. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Small margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Charles as a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, hands resting on a cushion. A detail of a painting of the Royal Family, with Charles leaning on a large dog rather than a cushion. The plate was recycled, with the Rembrandt inscription lower left a remnant.
Hollstein 165.
[Ref: 65049] £480.00
![[A boy seated in a studio.]](jpegs/60183.jpg)
[A boy seated in a studio.]
W. Vaillant fecit et excudit.
[Engraved c.1670 but printed c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), on wove paper. Thread margins.
A boy seated reading in a studio, with a drawing book and a statue of a cherub.
[Ref: 60183] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W. Vaillant fecit et excudit.
[Engraved c.1670 but printed c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), on wove paper. Thread margins.
A boy seated reading in a studio, with a drawing book and a statue of a cherub.
[Ref: 60183] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Peasant woman holding knitting needles?]](jpegs/34662.jpg)
[Peasant woman holding knitting needles?]
W Vaillant fec et Excud
Mezzotint, sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate; top left loss and bottom left corner; slight staining to edges.
Early mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77), the first professional mezzotint engraver. He met the inventor of the technique, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, in 1658, abd afterwards engraved over two hundred plates. This was originally one of a pair with a man counting coins.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34662] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
W Vaillant fec et Excud
Mezzotint, sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate; top left loss and bottom left corner; slight staining to edges.
Early mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77), the first professional mezzotint engraver. He met the inventor of the technique, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, in 1658, abd afterwards engraved over two hundred plates. This was originally one of a pair with a man counting coins.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34662] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Antoine van Dyck. Peintre très-celebre].](jpegs/11996.jpg)
[Antoine van Dyck. Peintre très-celebre].
A. Van Dyck P. W. Vaillant fecit
H. de Wit excudit.
Mezzotint, 230 x 180mm. Spot on sitter's collar.
Portrait after van Dyck. Another state names the sitter as van Dyck himself, but there is no resemblance. Print made by Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77), one of the most significant 17th century practitioners of what was then the new technique of mezzotint.
Hollstein 215.iii
[Ref: 11996] £350.00
A. Van Dyck P. W. Vaillant fecit
H. de Wit excudit.
Mezzotint, 230 x 180mm. Spot on sitter's collar.
Portrait after van Dyck. Another state names the sitter as van Dyck himself, but there is no resemblance. Print made by Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77), one of the most significant 17th century practitioners of what was then the new technique of mezzotint.
Hollstein 215.iii
[Ref: 11996] £350.00
![[A young boy with spaniel.]](jpegs/62577.jpg)
[A young boy with spaniel.]
W Vaillant fec: et Exc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 290 x 345mm (11½ x 13½"). Framed. Small margins, small chip in bottom edge, slight crease. Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, holding a stick, a dog on the table beside him. A pencil annotation on the frame suggests this is Charles II.
BM 1868,0612.1133, "young boy"; Hollstein 212.
[Ref: 62577] £360.00
W Vaillant fec: et Exc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 290 x 345mm (11½ x 13½"). Framed. Small margins, small chip in bottom edge, slight crease. Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, holding a stick, a dog on the table beside him. A pencil annotation on the frame suggests this is Charles II.
BM 1868,0612.1133, "young boy"; Hollstein 212.
[Ref: 62577] £360.00