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The following nine lots all come from an album with views along the rivers Rhine and Main done in 1763 by the draughtsman, antiquarian dealer, engraver and publisher of maps and topographical prints Hendrik de Leth II (1703-c.1766). The album was broken up and sold as lots 156-90 at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986 (see Provenance). De Leth had been trained by his father, Hendrik de Leth I, who had taken over the shop of the famous draughtsman, printmaker and publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher near the Dam in Amsterdam. De Leth II continued his father's business. The series covers views along the Rhine up to Mainz, and along the Main up to Frankfurt, and seven of them were engraved by De Leth in 1764 for his set of 12 Gezichten Langs den Rhyn..., published by F.W. Grebe in 1767. Other drawings from the album were recently exhibited, K. Honnef, K. Weschenfelder, I. Haberland, Vom Zauber des Rheins ergriffen.... Zur Entdeckung der Rheinlandschaft, exhib. cat., Munich, 1992, nos. 37-45, illustrated pp. 212-8.
Hendrick de Leth II (1703-c.1766)
A View of Braubach and Marksburg on the Rhine, with the Martinskapelle to the Right, seen from the West Bank at Nieder-Spey, looking downstream
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Hendrick de Leth II (1703-c.1766)
A View of Braubach and Marksburg on the Rhine, with the Martinskapelle to the Right, seen from the West Bank at Nieder-Spey, looking downstream
inscribed ''t Gesigt van de festung Broubach & het Slot Nidspeij nederwaarts varende' on part of the original mount
black lead, pen and grey ink, watercolour, countermark VI, grey ink framing lines, framed
178 x 281 mm.
A View of Braubach and Marksburg on the Rhine, with the Martinskapelle to the Right, seen from the West Bank at Nieder-Spey, looking downstream
inscribed ''t Gesigt van de festung Broubach & het Slot Nidspeij nederwaarts varende' on part of the original mount
black lead, pen and grey ink, watercolour, countermark VI, grey ink framing lines, framed
178 x 281 mm.
Provenance
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, part of lot 173 (B) (Nlg. 3,220 to the present owner).