Lot Essay
Being on very similar thin paper with narrow chainlines and possibly similar watermarks, this set of prints may also have been published by Gaultier and Savery (see previous lot).
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Small Dutch Landscapes
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17th Century Dutch School
Small Dutch Landscapes
a set of 11 etchings, circa 1620-50, presumably lacking plate 1, on thin laid paper, some with indistinct watermark fragments (Small Vase?), very good, probably early impressions of these very rare, unrecorded etchings, printing with a light plate tone, without any wear yet many scratches to the plates, trimmed to or just inside the platemarks but well outside the borderlines, with thread margins in places, a few scattered foxmarks, plate 12 with some brown stains, otherwise in good condition; together with The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon, engraving, watermark Jug; and two etchings, Ver and Aestas, etchings, all three by unknown hands, published by Savery and Gaultier, in good condition (14)
S. 78 x 245 mm. (and similar)
(14)
Small Dutch Landscapes
a set of 11 etchings, circa 1620-50, presumably lacking plate 1, on thin laid paper, some with indistinct watermark fragments (Small Vase?), very good, probably early impressions of these very rare, unrecorded etchings, printing with a light plate tone, without any wear yet many scratches to the plates, trimmed to or just inside the platemarks but well outside the borderlines, with thread margins in places, a few scattered foxmarks, plate 12 with some brown stains, otherwise in good condition; together with The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon, engraving, watermark Jug; and two etchings, Ver and Aestas, etchings, all three by unknown hands, published by Savery and Gaultier, in good condition (14)
S. 78 x 245 mm. (and similar)
(14)
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