Antique Print-FLOOD-STORM-ICE-BEUSICHEM-van Hardenberg-Vinkeles-1809

Engraving on hand laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 39.6 x 28.3 cm. The image size is ca. 34 x 25 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 15.6 x 11.1 inch. The image size is ca. 13.4 x 9.8 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Verwoesting door den vloed en ysschotsen te Beuzichem’ – This print shows the destruction by storm and ice of the Dutch village Beusichem. Hendrik Ewijk’s “Geschiedkundig verslag der dijkbreuken en overstroomingen in Holland, in 1809”. Amsterdam: J. Allart en J. Ruys, 1809.Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Reinier Vinkeles’ after ‘Cornelis van Hardenberg’. Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816) was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands. He studied for some ten years with Jan Punt and joined the Amsterdam Stadstekenacademie (City Drawing School) in 1762. In 1765 he travelled to Brabant with Jurriaen Andriessen and Izaak Schmidt. In 1770 he left for Paris, where he studied for a year with Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and also met the Dutch artists Hermanus Numan and Izaak Jansz de Wit (1744-1809). When he returned to Amsterdam he worked making prints for book illustrations, including portraits, topographical and architectural prints, copies after Dutch masters, and theatre sets. He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie and was a member of the artist’s club Pax Artium Nutrix. He became the teacher of Jacob Ernst Marcus, Jacobus Millies, his son Abraham Vinkeles, his brother Harmanus Vinkeles (1745-1804), his son Johannes Vinkeles, and Daniel Vrijdag. Cornelis van Hardenberg (1755-1843) worked in Utrecht as an artist with landscape and city views as his specialty.

Condition: Excellent, given age. Soiling lines in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-FLOOD-STORM-ICE-BEUSICHEM-VAN HARDENBERG-VINKELES

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