Square Landscape with Travellers

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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (1587-1630)
Square Landscape with Travellers
etching
circa 1616-19
on laid paper, watermark Basel Crozier in Crowned Shield
a fine, tonal impression of Hollstein's third state (of five)
published by Johannes Pietersz. Beerendrecht, Haarlem
trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline
the upper left corner made up, some other, minor defects
Sheet 170 x 174 mm.

来源

Unidentified, inscription of letters and numbers in brown ink verso (not in Lugt).
William Roscoe (1753-1831), Liverpool (without mark and not in Lugt); his sale, Winstanley, Liverpool, 9 September (and following days), lot 1092 ('One, A Landscape and Figures, a man with his dog in the foreground, fine and rare.') (£1.8).
Christopher Mendez (1943-2025), London; then by descent to present owners.

Literature

Hollstein 16
L. Burchard, Die holländischen Radierer vor Rembrandt, Halle an der Saale, 1912, no. 5.

Exhibited

C. Ackley, Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, Boston, 1981, No. 41.

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拍品专文

Beerendrecht was the original publisher of this print and the first three states are all life-time. The first two states are extremely rare; only two trial proofs of each are known (in Bremen and Haarlem, and Boston and Vienna, respectively). In the present third state, Beerendrecht added Haerlemensis to his address and began to print it in greater numbers. The fourth state was published by Simon Kloeting, with his address replacing that of Beerendrecht, and the later fifth state has all addresses and the signature burnished out. The present third state is the earliest obtainable.

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