Prints and Portraits
386 items found
Stoopendaal, D.
Fireworks - Afbeelding van het vuurwerk in de Hofvijver in Den Haag afgestoken op 14 juni 1713 ter gelegenheid van het sluiten van de Vrede van Utrecht op 11 april. [Image of the fireworks in the Hofvijver in The Hague on June 14, 1713 on the occasion of the conclusion of the Treaty of Utrecht on April 11].
's-Gravenhage [The Hague], Anna Beeck, 1713. Broadsheet (47.5 x 54.3 cm). Engraving by D. Stoopendaal after a drawing by H. Pola.
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Seba, A.
Giant snake [Plate 101 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume II].
Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1735. Very large oblong folio (51.2 x 63.2 cm). Double-sized engraved plate in fine, natural, contemporary hand-colouring
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Boyer d'Aguilles, J. B. and J. Coelemans
Un Vaze de fleurs paint par Mario dy fioré [from Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France].
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1744. Single sheet (27.0 x 20.0 cm) on thick laid paper with a fine engraving – in very nice hand-colouring – by Jacques Coelemans. Printed surface ca. 24 x 19 cm. In modern passe partout with salmon linen cover.
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Large garden concert.
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750]. Seven large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being six cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a garden concert scene. Preserved in contemporary wrappers with handwritten text Concert de Musique.
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"Bear hunting".
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht (?), ca. 1750]. Six oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 20.0 x 16,0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, five cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a scene in a forest, with hunters chasing a bear. Preserved in an attractive 20th-century felt-covered wooden box with glass front and top (28 x 21 x 17.5 cm).
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Meyer, J. D.
Vorstellungen allerley Thiere mit ihren Gerippe. Plate XLI, Ein sceletrirtes monstroses dreijfüssigtes Dam-Hirsch-Kalb [AND] Das Scelet von einem dreijfüssigten Schweinlein.
Nürnberg, A. Bieling, 1752. Folio-size (41.4 x 25.2 cm). Well preserved hand-painted engraving of two mammals. Printed, partially hand-coloured.
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Meyer, J. D.
Vorstellungen allerley Thiere mit ihren Gerippe. Plate VII, Das Scelet eines Karpfens [AND] Aüsserliche Gestalt eines Karpfens [AND] Scelet eines an seinem Rückgrad curiös verwachsenen Karpfen, an dessen Kopf hinterwarts die mit Zähnen besezte Kiefer, nebst dem Karpfenstein vorstellig gemacht worden.
Nürnberg, A. Bieling, 1752. Folio-size (41.5 x 25.5 cm). Well-preserved engraving of fish. Printed, partially hand-coloured.
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