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Desiderius Erasmus Rotterodamus. Qui Patriae lumen qui nostri gloria fech [...]
Vorsterman sculptor D.D.: Hansus Holbenius pinxit. Cum Privilegio Reg: [c.1625]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian. Erasmus prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, and also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works. Erasmus lived through the Reformation period and he consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Protestant Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road disappointed and even angered many Protestants, such as Martin Luther, as well as conservative Catholics. One of the earliest of many prints reproducing the famous 1532 portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the younger. Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), a favoured engraver of his contemporaries Rubens and Van Dyck. Despite his close relationship with Rubens (who was godfather to Vorsterman's eldest son), the engraver felt exploited by the famous painter. At one point Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life, and subsequently moved to England, where he was employed by Charles I, Thomas Howard and the Earl of Pembroke to reproduce paintings from their collections. Howard was then the owner of this picture (one of many versions of the portrait that exist but one of the only ones believed to be painted by Holbein himself). The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Published in the 'Iconographia' series of etchings after portraits by van Dyck, some of which van Dyck etched himself.
Hollstein 153 II of II
[Ref: 65764] £360.00
Vorsterman sculptor D.D.: Hansus Holbenius pinxit. Cum Privilegio Reg: [c.1625]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian. Erasmus prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, and also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works. Erasmus lived through the Reformation period and he consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Protestant Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road disappointed and even angered many Protestants, such as Martin Luther, as well as conservative Catholics. One of the earliest of many prints reproducing the famous 1532 portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the younger. Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), a favoured engraver of his contemporaries Rubens and Van Dyck. Despite his close relationship with Rubens (who was godfather to Vorsterman's eldest son), the engraver felt exploited by the famous painter. At one point Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life, and subsequently moved to England, where he was employed by Charles I, Thomas Howard and the Earl of Pembroke to reproduce paintings from their collections. Howard was then the owner of this picture (one of many versions of the portrait that exist but one of the only ones believed to be painted by Holbein himself). The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Published in the 'Iconographia' series of etchings after portraits by van Dyck, some of which van Dyck etched himself.
Hollstein 153 II of II
[Ref: 65764] £360.00
Gibralter.
[Etched by Lucas Vosterman? after Jan Peeters.]
J. Peeters excudit. [Antwerp, n.d., c. 1665.]
Etching. 115 x 270mm (4½ x 10¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
View of Gibraltar from the sea, a fortified castle on top of the mountain, the town, surrounded by a defensive wall, sprawling underneath. From 'Divarse Viste delli Luoghie Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibraltar', eleven views of the western end of the Mediterranean.
[Ref: 53057] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Etched by Lucas Vosterman? after Jan Peeters.]
J. Peeters excudit. [Antwerp, n.d., c. 1665.]
Etching. 115 x 270mm (4½ x 10¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
View of Gibraltar from the sea, a fortified castle on top of the mountain, the town, surrounded by a defensive wall, sprawling underneath. From 'Divarse Viste delli Luoghie Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibraltar', eleven views of the western end of the Mediterranean.
[Ref: 53057] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Luxuria]](jpegs/46381.jpg)
[Luxuria]
ABrouwer Vorsterman junior sc. [c.1650]
Etching, scarce, 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet on left.
First state, before verses in Dutch added, of print after Adriaen Brouwer illustrating the vice of drinking.
[Ref: 46381] £450.00
ABrouwer Vorsterman junior sc. [c.1650]
Etching, scarce, 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet on left.
First state, before verses in Dutch added, of print after Adriaen Brouwer illustrating the vice of drinking.
[Ref: 46381] £450.00
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[Virgin and Child] Dillectus meus mihi et ego illi / Admodum Reverendo Domino: Dno Ioanni Chrisostomo vander Sterre [...]
Correggio p. [c.1628]
Engraving, 17th century watermark; platemark 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8"), with large margins. Loss of margin top right.
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman (or, as Hollstein believes, one of his studio assistants) after a painting here erroneously attributed to Correggio.
[Ref: 45999] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Correggio p. [c.1628]
Engraving, 17th century watermark; platemark 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8"), with large margins. Loss of margin top right.
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman (or, as Hollstein believes, one of his studio assistants) after a painting here erroneously attributed to Correggio.
[Ref: 45999] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
La Citta di Malta.
Joannes Peeters delineauit. Lucas Vorstermans fecit. I.Peetersext.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 115mm (10¼ x 4½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges. Some cockling.
A view of a town in Malta, surrounded by a fortified wall with bastions, the harbour entrance in left middle ground, ships at sea across the foreground and right middle ground.
[Ref: 67501] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Joannes Peeters delineauit. Lucas Vorstermans fecit. I.Peetersext.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 115mm (10¼ x 4½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges. Some cockling.
A view of a town in Malta, surrounded by a fortified wall with bastions, the harbour entrance in left middle ground, ships at sea across the foreground and right middle ground.
[Ref: 67501] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Marie de Medici surrounded by her children]](jpegs/43012.jpg)
[Marie de Medici surrounded by her children]
[Lucas Vorsterman after Nicolaas van der Horst]
[Published by Balthasar Moretus, 1632]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Laid onto album sheet on left margin.
Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642), wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Shown here framed within a tree, from the branches of which grow her children: Louis XIII of France; Henrietta Maria; Elisabeth, Gaston of Orléans; and Christine Marie of Savoy. Fame and Fortune water the tree in lower corners. Illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre's 'Histoire Curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'Entree de la Reyne Mere du Roy Treschrestien dans les Villes des Pays Bas" (Antwerp: Moretus, 1632)
[Ref: 43012] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Lucas Vorsterman after Nicolaas van der Horst]
[Published by Balthasar Moretus, 1632]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Laid onto album sheet on left margin.
Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642), wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Shown here framed within a tree, from the branches of which grow her children: Louis XIII of France; Henrietta Maria; Elisabeth, Gaston of Orléans; and Christine Marie of Savoy. Fame and Fortune water the tree in lower corners. Illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre's 'Histoire Curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'Entree de la Reyne Mere du Roy Treschrestien dans les Villes des Pays Bas" (Antwerp: Moretus, 1632)
[Ref: 43012] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Rubecan un Rousin.
Abr. à Diepenbeke delin. Lucas Vorstermans Sculp.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 530mm (15¼ x 21"). Centre fold as usual, trimmed within plate at sides, as issued.
A portrait of a squire holding the reins of a horse, landscape behind. Plate 10 of the Duke of Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658, but this example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War William Cavendish (1592-1676) settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved. However his estates at Bolsover and Welbeck Abbey were often the backdrop of these famous dressage plates.
[Ref: 48206] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Abr. à Diepenbeke delin. Lucas Vorstermans Sculp.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 530mm (15¼ x 21"). Centre fold as usual, trimmed within plate at sides, as issued.
A portrait of a squire holding the reins of a horse, landscape behind. Plate 10 of the Duke of Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658, but this example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War William Cavendish (1592-1676) settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved. However his estates at Bolsover and Welbeck Abbey were often the backdrop of these famous dressage plates.
[Ref: 48206] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
David Teniers Antuerpianus Sereniss.is Leopoldo Archiduci, & Ioanni Austriaco Belgy Gubernatoribus Pictor familiaris, & Vtriq a Cubiculis, A.o M.D.C.LIX Ætat: 49. Herous faciles aditus in limina Regum...
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Iacobus Peeters excudit [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Hinged on left of sheet.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Frontis to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. In pencil on sheet "Spencer Churchill Book". First published 1659: this example is of the fourth state of four, published by Peeters rather than Abraham Teniers.
[Ref: 49453] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Iacobus Peeters excudit [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Hinged on left of sheet.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Frontis to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. In pencil on sheet "Spencer Churchill Book". First published 1659: this example is of the fourth state of four, published by Peeters rather than Abraham Teniers.
[Ref: 49453] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
David Teniers Antuerpianus Sereniss.is Leopoldo Archiduci, & Ioanni Austriaco Belgy Gubernatoribus Pictor familiaris, & Vtriq a Cubiculis, A.o M.D.C.LIX Ætat: 49. Herous faciles aditus in limina Regum...
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Abraham Teniers excudit [n.d., 1659].
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at sides.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), published as the frontispiece to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. An example of the second state of four, the first published state.
[Ref: 62190] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Abraham Teniers excudit [n.d., 1659].
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at sides.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), published as the frontispiece to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. An example of the second state of four, the first published state.
[Ref: 62190] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Lucas Vorstermans. Desine Lysikkos iactare animosa vetustas / Hic Vir, hic excudit spirantia mollius æra.
Ant. van Dÿck pinxit Luc. Vorstermans iunior sculpsit et excudit [c.1640]
Engraving, platemark 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to platemark.
Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), engraver and art dealer whose early career was closely intertwined with that of Rubens (who trained Vorsterman and was a godparent to his eldest son). Their relationship soured however, to the extent that Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life. After returning to Antwerp from several years in England, Vorsterman worked extensively for van Dyck, who was godfather to Vorsterman's daughter and who painted the portrait from which this engraving is taken (the painting is now in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon). Etched by Vorsterman's son, who studied with his father, for the 'Iconographia' series of portraits after van Dyck.
[Ref: 45464] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Ant. van Dÿck pinxit Luc. Vorstermans iunior sculpsit et excudit [c.1640]
Engraving, platemark 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to platemark.
Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675), engraver and art dealer whose early career was closely intertwined with that of Rubens (who trained Vorsterman and was a godparent to his eldest son). Their relationship soured however, to the extent that Vorsterman made an attempt on Rubens' life. After returning to Antwerp from several years in England, Vorsterman worked extensively for van Dyck, who was godfather to Vorsterman's daughter and who painted the portrait from which this engraving is taken (the painting is now in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon). Etched by Vorsterman's son, who studied with his father, for the 'Iconographia' series of portraits after van Dyck.
[Ref: 45464] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)