Antique Master Print-TWO-RIDERS-WALL-TOWER-LANDSCAPE-Anonymous-1810

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 8.8 x 5.8 cm. (3.46 x 2.28 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Minor age-related wear and slight staining in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ANONYMOUS ETCHING, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR, VAN ESVELDT HOLTROP, RIDERS, FORTIFIED GATE, TOWER, RIVERSIDE LANDSCAPE, DUTCH PRINT, NINETEENTH CENTURY REPRODUCTION, PICTURESQUE ARCHITECTURE | EXPO-DUTCH

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Spiegel der natuur en school ter teekenkunde, bevattende LXXVI afbeeldingen van landschappen, landsdouwen, watergezichten, enz. enz. Allen zoo veele studiën van Silvestre, Perelle, Quinault, Du Moulin, Della Bella, Zaftleven, Almeloveen, Van Schyndel, Nolpe, Vermeulen, Visscher en Schenk (…)’. Published by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop, Amsterdam, 1810. The publication assembles studies after celebrated seventeenth-century masters intended for artistic training. .

State: Extremely rare ed./restrike from original seventeenth-century copperplate.

Reference: Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.