Collection d'Imitations de Dessins d'apres les principaux Maîtres commencée C. Ploos van Amstel, continué et portée au nombre de Cent Morceaux, Avec des Renseignemens historiques et detaillés sur ces Maîtres et sur leurs Ouvrages...

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Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798)
Collection d'Imitations de Dessins d'apres les principaux Maîtres commencée C. Ploos van Amstel, continué et portée au nombre de Cent Morceaux, Avec des Renseignemens historiques et detaillés sur ces Maîtres et sur leurs Ouvrages...
the book, published by C. Josi, London; Artaria and Fontaine, Mannheim; and Van Cleef, The Hague and Amsterdam, 1821, with the certification dated 1 January 1827, the texts describing the works of the artists included, with introduction and etched frontispiece portraying Ploos van Amstel, with conclusion and lists of artists and prints, and including 84 (of 104 listed) etchings in the manière de crayon, partly printed in colours, and with Ploos van Amstel's coat of arms (Laurentius, Niemeijer and Ploos van Amstel 55 or a copy) on the reverse, some with folds or minor tears, most laid down on thick laid paper interleaves, 84 prints included in the following order (all final states if any, where no reference numbers for L.N.P. are given these are not recorded):
A violinplayer in a village, after A. van Ostade (L.N.P. 17); Farmers by a fireplace, after A. van Ostade (L.N.P. 59); The pig killers, after J. Saenredam (L.N.P. 41); Church interior, after H. van Vliet; River landscape with a mill, after A. van Borssum; The Winter king on the ice, after H. Avercamp (L.N.P. 8); Fruit still life, after J. van Huysum (L.N.P. 67); Boy leaning over a hatch, after S. van Hoogstraten (?) (L.N.P. 6); Woman leaning over a hatch seen from behind, after Rembrandt (?) (L.N.P. 5); Boy with a hat in an alcove, after S. van Hoogstraten (?); Two men at a table in a candle-lit interior, after Rembrandt (?); A youth with hat in an alcove, after S. van Hoogstraten (?); Two men at a table in a candle-lit interior, after Rembrandt (?); The interior of a house looking out, after an anonymous prototype; Roman ruins, after J. Lievens; A seated youth reading, after G. van den Eeckhout; A pensive youth in a hat standing, after G. van den Eeckhout; Botanists at a table, after G. van den Eeckhout (L.N.P. 43); Interior with a man cutting a candle, after J. Luyken (L.N.P. 45); Draughtsman seated by a farm, after G. van den Eeckhout (L.N.P. 58); Figures by a tree in a village, after L. Doomer (L.N.P. 47); The Judgement of Salomon, after L. van Leyden (L.N.P. 34); The pancake woman, after G. Metsu (L.N.P. 14); Woman and her maid in a room, after F. van Mieris; A card player by a table, after F. van Mieris (L.N.P. 26); Seated dog, after F. van Mieris (L.N.P. 28); Dog lying, after F. van Mieris (L.N.P. 27), first version; A gentleman seated, after C. Visscher (L.N.P. 19); Elegant couple and servant in an interior, after G. Terborch (L.N.P.), second (?) version; The Madonna and Child, after A. Bloemaert (L.N.P. 16); Portrait of Salomon de Bray, after J. de Bray (L.N.P. 9); Man with a beret, after G. Flinck (L.N.P. 23); Man with a candle, after G. Schalcken; A woman reading, after J. de Bray (L.N.P. 63); Orphanage governors, after J. de Bray (L.N.P. 37); Woman playing a lute, after C. Netscher (L.N.P. 31), Woman with a candle, after C. Netscher (L.N.P. 57); Man with a jug in a tavern, after A. Brouwer (L.N.P. 25); Woman with children in an interior, after C. Bega (L.N.P. 42); A crier in a village, after C. Dusart (L.N.P. 29); The music lesson, after J. Steen; The receiver, after J. Steen (L.N.P. 38); A Couple playing the lute, after K. van Mander (L.N.P. 22); Herdsmen by lake below a castle, after J. van der Meer the Younger (L.N.P. 40); A man and horse and a washer woman, after P. Wouwerman (L.N.P. 20); Sheep by a stable, after K. du Jardin (L.N.P. 44); Three pigs, after P. Potter; A cow, after P. van Bloemen; A donkey with baskets, after P. van Bloemen; A ship being loaded with wood, after H. Saftleven (L.N.P. 3); A small wharf, after H. Saftleven (L.N.P. 2); A herdsman and his wife with cattle by a river, after A. van de Velde (L.N.P. 4); Mercury and Argus, after A. van de Velde (by C. Brouwer); A herdsman with horses and cattle by the walls of a town, after A. van de Velde; Shipping on a river, after P. Coopse (L.N.P. 24); A woman with cattle by a ruin, after N. Berchem; Herdsmen with cattle by a river with a ferry, after N. Berchem (L.N.P. 15); A shepherdess with her flock, a herdsman playing a flute nearby, after N. Berchem; A herdsman and cattle by a tree, after N. Berchem; A herdsman and cattle on a road, after S. van der Does; A herdsman with cattle by a ruined arch, after S. van der Does (L.N.P. 39); A ruined church overlooking a panoramic landscape, after R. Roghman; A river landscape by moonlight, after A. van der Neer; Shepherds by a river in an Italianate landscape, after A. van der Cabel; Men o'War at sea, after W. van de Velde; Shipping by a jetty, after W. van de Velde (by C. Brouwer); Man o' War saluting, after W. van de Velde (L.N.P. 48); The cattle market, after J. van Goyen (L.N.P. 11); The fishmarket, after J. van Goyen (L.N.P. 10); Travellers on a road in a river landscape, after W. de Heusch; Shipping on a river, after J. Esselens (L.N.P. 46); A river landscape with fishermen, after S. de Vlieger; A Man o'War at the IJ, after L. Backhuysen (L.N.P. 13); Shipping on a river, after A. Cuyp; Fishermen in a choppy sea, after A. van Everdingen; A village, after A. van Everdingen (L.N.P. 36); A castle on a rock by the sea, after A. van Everdingen; A roman bridge over a river, after J. van der Ulft; A Roman gate with a mule, after T. Wijck (L.N.P. 35); A ruined farm, after J. van Ruisdael (by C. Brouwer); Huntsmen chasing a deer, after A. Pijnacker (by C. Brouwer); A wooded road with a traveller, after J. Both (by C. Brouwer); A mountainous river landscape, after J. Hackert (by C. Brouwer); A wooded landscape with houses by a stream, after A. Verboom (?); Herdsmen watering their cattle by a ruin, lithograph, after J. Cats; Travellers on a road along a river, after H. van Swanevelt; and A cavalry scene, after D. Langendijk; 20 plates, including L.N.P. nos. 7,12,18,32,33,56 and 66 lacking (L.N.P. nos. 1,49-54,60-62, and 65 were not included in this publication)
In the original marbled board and half marocco binding with gilt imprint on spine
varying in size from 343 x 300 mm. to 72 x 82 mm. each

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With Gebroeders van Cleef, The Hague Amsterdam, publishers

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拍品專文

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel is known for his highly important art collection, including pictures, prints, sculpture, coins and medals, scientific instruments, books and manuscripts, but especially the large number of Dutch Old Master Drawings. The present book includes a number of his prints after original drawings, most from his own collection. These 'prenttekeningen' were done in a technique which he developed himself, mistaken by many to the present day for originals. The first prints were published in 1765, and were expensive: the violinplayer after Adriaen van Ostade cost 15 guilders and 15 stuivers. The first editions included 46 prints for 227 guilders. Some years after his death, Ploos' etching plates were acquired by Christiaan Josi (1768-1828), who had known Ploos in his last years. Josi first worked with the famous English reproductive printmaker John Raphael Smith in London, where he settled in 1819. In 1821 Josi continued the publication of Ploos' prints in an edition of only 100 copies, adding to it 55 prints by others, including Cornelis Brouwer and himself. The total number of prints for the present edition was not 100 as described, but 104. The present set includes Josi's certificate of that limited number, dated 1827, one year before Josi's death. All prints bear the coat-of-arms of Ploos on the reverse although he had not been involved in the production. It is interesting to note that the set includes prints after the 18th Century artists Jacob Cats and Dirk Langendijk. The print after Cats is a lithograph, a relatively new technique at the time.