Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816)

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Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816)

Designs for Book Illustrations: an Ice scene; a young Woman by an old Lady sleeping; a Girl by a Canal; a Marketscene; a Couple watching Lightning; and An elegant Couple riding past Beggars

all signed 'R. Vinkeles inv. et del.' and inscribed with the number of the illustration (verso); pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, grey ink framing lines
averaging 135 x 89 mm. (6)
Provenance
Pictura, Groningen (L. 2028)
with M. Israel, Amsterdam, 1956
Exhibited
(3-6) Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 128
Engraved
By the artist for A. Loosjes Pzn., Susanna Bronkhorst, I-VI, Haarlem, 1806-7, impressions are sold with the drawings

Lot Essay

These are the designs for the single illustration in each volume of Loosje's book, a fantasy written in letters. The sixth illustration shows Susanna with her friend Cornelis de Klerk inspecting the country seat Heiderijk in the Province of Gelderland being asked for alms by a boy that turns out to be her cousin Toby

See illustrations on p.

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