Antique Master Print-KOSTVERLOREN-CASTLE-AMSTERDAM-AMSTEL-RIVER-Visscher-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 9.4 x 5.4 cm. (3.7 x 2.13 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.

KOSTVERLOREN CASTLE, AMSTERDAM, AMSTEL, CLAES JANSZ VISSCHER, DUTCH LANDSCAPE, FISHERMEN, PEASANTS, RURAL VIEW, AMSTERDAM SURROUNDINGS, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR, DUTCH GOLDEN AGE | 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 141. Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652) was an etcher, and publisher. He founded the Amsterdam publishing and printmaking dynasty. The Visscher workshop produced maps, topographical prints and landscape views that were widely distributed throughout Europe.