PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR & CHARLOTTE VERSHBOW
BLOEMAERT, Abraham (1566-1651). [Konstryk tekenboek - The Drawing Book of Abraham Bloemart -- pars septima -- pars ocatava]. Amsterdam: Nicholas Visscher, ca. 1679.
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BLOEMAERT, Abraham (1566-1651). [Konstryk tekenboek - The Drawing Book of Abraham Bloemart -- pars septima -- pars ocatava]. Amsterdam: Nicholas Visscher, ca. 1679.
2o (349 x 265 mm). 103 (of 120) engraved plates (chiaroscuro frontispiece and 2 chiaroscuro plates) engraved plates, and 31 (of 40) engraved plates (one chiaroscuro plate) of the additional parts "septima" and "octava." (Frontispiece cut down and mounted). 19th-century English calf gilt (rebacked). Provenance: acquired 1992.
FIRST EDITION, some plates in early state. Bloemaert's famous model drawing book, engraved by his son Frederick, was influential throughout the 18th-century. Bloemaert taught pupils like Hendrik ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst, Andries and Jan Both, Dirk Hals, Hendrik de Keyser, and Paulus Moreelse. (Hollstein 36-155).
2o (349 x 265 mm). 103 (of 120) engraved plates (chiaroscuro frontispiece and 2 chiaroscuro plates) engraved plates, and 31 (of 40) engraved plates (one chiaroscuro plate) of the additional parts "septima" and "octava." (Frontispiece cut down and mounted). 19th-century English calf gilt (rebacked). Provenance: acquired 1992.
FIRST EDITION, some plates in early state. Bloemaert's famous model drawing book, engraved by his son Frederick, was influential throughout the 18th-century. Bloemaert taught pupils like Hendrik ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst, Andries and Jan Both, Dirk Hals, Hendrik de Keyser, and Paulus Moreelse. (Hollstein 36-155).