Print Description
Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 15 x 19.5 cm (5.91 x 7.68 inch). Image size: 10.5 x 7.3 cm. (4.13 x 2.87 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Minor foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
NIJMEGEN-VALKHOF CASTLE-NETHERLANDS | LADENKAST-SHELVE 1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a Dutch book of town and city views called: ‘Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche Oudheden’, authored by J.H. Reisig and published in Amsterdam by various publishers: J.A. Crajenschot, Mattheus Brouerius van Nidek, R.G. and Isaac Le Long from 1693-1792.
Biography engraver: Abraham Rademaker (1667-1735), Dutch draughtsman, printmaker and dealer. This self-educated artist lived for some years in Amsterdam, where he married in 1706. He specialized in landscapes depicting Dutch cities and historic monuments. Fantastic scenes and a few portrait studies also belong to his oeuvre. Rademaker’s reputation is associated most frequently with his publications of topographical views of the northern Netherlands, the Rhine and Cleves. For his first, and most famous, comprehensive and historically informative publication, Rademaker etched many of his 300 images after well-known 17th-century drawings and prints and on his own drawings.
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