Antique Master Print-RIVER-LANDSCAPE-WALKERS-CLIFF-VISTA-Almeloveen-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 15 x 9 cm. (5.91 x 3.54 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.

JAN VAN ALMELOVEEN, RIVER LANDSCAPE, WALKERS, TRAVELLERS, CLIFF, PANORAMIC VIEW, DUTCH ETCHING, IDEAL LANDSCAPE, SAILING VESSELS, HOLLSTEIN 27 | 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: Hollstein 31. Part of a series of six Various Landscapes. Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Jan van Almeloveen (1656–1684) was a Dutch etcher, painter and physician active in Amsterdam. He produced a distinguished series of landscape etchings that combined Dutch scenery with Italianate influences, earning lasting recognition among collectors and print historians.