A collection of original etchings; consisting of 7 original plates, by Rembrandt. 6 after Rembrandt, by Vivares. 25 original plates, by Claude. 1660. 3 ditto, by Dominique Barriere. 1651. 5 ditto, by Horizonti. 47 ditto, by Hollar. 1641-1647. 6 ditto, by Theodore van Kessel. 1654. 10 ditto, by Runciman. 17 original plates, by Cornelius Bega. 1654. 24 ditto, by Castiliogne. 7 ditto, by Silvestre. 43 by various artists, after Rembrandt, Du Jardin della Bella, &c. 200.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669)
Category
Books
Date
1826
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3221553
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1] leaf, [200] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (etchings) ; fol. Ephemera: two leaves (one folded in half) of light blue paper inserted loosely at front, containing rough pencil sketches of faces in profile; the subjects are identified as "AR", "Pip", "SWC" and "Ra". Provenance: manuscript inscriptions in pencil (faded) on front fly-leaf: "John Spivigione 1838" and "Cremer Cremer" [i.e. Rev. Cremer Cremer (1795-1867)]. Binding: nineteenth-century blind and gold-tooled straight-grain red morocco; border of triple gilt fillet framework with gilt and blind roll patterns; gilt wavy line roll pattern along board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Original Etchings' lettered on spine. All edges gilt. Brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669) Vivarès, François Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682) Dominique Barrière (1618-1678) Bloemen, Jan Frans van Runciman, Alexander Cornelis Pietersz Bega (Haarlem 1631/32 – Haarlem 1664) Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto Israël Silvestre (1621-1691) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677) Kessel, Theodore van