Rare-Antique Master Print-WOODED-LANDSCAPE-TRAVELLERS-Danckerts I-Perelle-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.2 x 16.2 cm (7.95 x 6.38 inch). Image size: 12.8 x 12.8 cm. (5.04 x 5.04 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

SPIEGEL DER NATUUR, SCHOOL TER TEEKENKUNDE, CIRCULAR LANDSCAPE, WOODED LANDSCAPE, TRAVELLERS, DUTCH ETCHING, ITALIANATE SCENERY | 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: Cornelis Danckerts I (1604-1656) was a Dutch engraver, printer, and publisher. Active in Amsterdam from around 1631. His publishing house grew into a well-known cartographic family business run by his descendants.

Biography artist: Gabriel Perelle (1604-1677) was a French draftsman and printmaker of topographic views and landscapes. A pupil of Simon Vouet, Perelle specialized in classical landscapes not dissimilar to those of Francisque Millet, although more obviously decorative. He founded an etching workshop, and his sons Nicolas (1631-1695) and Adam (1640-1695) assisted him.