Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois
1673
Artist, Dutch, 1645 - 1708
Author, Dutch, 1606 - 1682
Publisher, Netherlandish, active 1670 - 1700
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with letterpress text and 8 folded etched plates (the last two plates with two scenes each) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 23.8 x 19.2 x 2.5 cm (9 3/8 x 7 9/16 x 1 in.)
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Accession
2009.41.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, nos. 90-96
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Van der Helle, Lille [bookplate]. (sale, Paris, Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, 10 February 1868, lot 1928). Ernest Bonnejoy (1833-1896), Chars (Val-d’Oise) [Lugt 4031 and bookplate]. (Ursus Books & Prints Ltd., New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
Inscriptions
in brown pen and ink inside upper cover upper center: Bonne édition d'un ouvrage rare, éstimé et dificille a la procha[ine?] / (not deciphered) tei chic (not deciphered) 23rd voi[?]ec jai catalogue ton 2em [h?]ejtaine / page 149 - No. 3142; in graphite recto first free end paper upper right: ORXY-R; verso: Je fai[s?] rapprocher décaf ouvrage la vie de Bernard / van Galen. Chricheve apre de mu[?]ster frau Gu[er?]deville; second free end paper upper left: AR[?]; verso: vais 1me [?] ouvrage / Aualicta Biblian (du Roure) tII. p 326. / L'auteur en est Abraham de Wicquefort; inside lower cover upper center in brown pen and ink: oevre hunt groivaree, de Romain de Hoge.; upper right: B[?]; center right: 330; lower left: ZICii [?] c-; upper right in graphite: UB / 119764 / a NM / [2] 202pp.
Markings
on front pastedown, Van der Helle bookplate (EX MVSEO VAN DER HELLE); on front flyleaf, stamp of Ernest Bonnejoy (Lugt 4031); on back pastedown, bookplate of Ernest Bonnejoy [designed and etched by Bonnejoy in 1895]