Antique Master Print-TWO-TRAVELLERS-RIVER-VALLEY-VILLAGE-Van 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: 15.2 x 10.2 cm. (5.98 x 4.02 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, TRAVELLERS, RIVER VALLEY, VILLAGE, CHURCH, MOUNTAINS, DUTCH LANDSCAPE, PASTORAL SCENERY, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR, HOLTROP | 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.

Biography engraver: Jan van Almeloveen (1656–1684) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher from Mijdrecht. He specialized in small, finely executed landscape etchings depicting rivers, villages and mountainous scenery. His prints were widely collected and reissued during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.