Print Description
Medium: Etching and drypoint on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 25 x 13.7 cm (9.84 x 5.39 inch). Image size: 25 x 13.7 cm. (9.84 x 5.39 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. 2 Pinholes from binding in left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
REINIER NOOMS, MART ENGELBRECHT, DUTCH 17TH-CENTURY MARITIME PRINT, TURF TRANSPORT, VEENSE TURFPONT, FRIESE TURFPONT, HOLLSTEIN 51, BARTSCH 85, AMSTELREDAM, COLORED ETCHING | PCO-E30-01
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published by Mart. Engelbrecht (excud. A.V.).
Reference: Based on the Illustrated Bartsch 85; Hollstein Dutch 51.
Biography engraver: Reinier Nooms (ca. 1623-1664), Dutch marine painter and etcher known for detailed maritime scenes; also known as “Zeeman.”.
Biography artist: Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), a German Baroque engraver and publisher from Augsburg. He began his career as an artist by the attachment to a local publishing house but had by 1708 moved to Berlin where he was engaged in the designs after Eosander von Goethe of a the Silberb?fett im Ritterall at Berlin and of a porcelain cabinet in Charlotttenberg. Returning to Augsburg he was involved in illustrating a wide variety of works after various artist mainly on subjects connected with the decorative arts. However in 1711 Engelbrecht was again in Berlin working at a fine art publishers with his older brother Christian Engelbrecht (1672-1735). They decided to start their own independent publishing house at Augsburg in 1719 where they produce a wide variety of graphic works.
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