Jan van de Velde II, “Dawn”, c.1628, after Hendrik Goudt

Jan van de Velde II (c.1593–1641)

“Dawn”, c.1628 (1615–1641), plate 2 from the series of four plates, “The Times of the Day”, after a print by Hendrik Goudt (aka Hendrick Goudt) (1583–1648).

Etching with engraving on fine laid paper, trimmed with a small margin around platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 10.8 x 17.9cm: (plate) 9.3 x 16.6cm; (image borderline) 9 x 16.3cm.

Numbered in plate at the lower right corner: “2”.

State ii (of ii) with the addition of the plate number.

Hollstein 76 (Ger Luijten & Christiaan Schuckman [comp.] 1989, “Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts c.1450–1700: Jan van de Velde II to Dirk Vellert”, vol. 33, Roosendaal, Koninklijke Van Poll, cat. no. 76); Franken & Van der Kellen 192 (Daniel Franken & Johan Philip van der Kellen 1883, “L'oeuvre gravé de Jan van de Velde II”, Amsterdam, p.90, cat. no. 192).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “Hilly landscape with shepherds at a campfire in the foreground on the right. Dawn in the background. Print from a series of four” (https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200392703).

See also the description of this print offered by The British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-5823.

Condition: a well-printed impression, but not rich in contrast, with small margins around the platemark and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. There is a replenished loss on the borderline at upper left and minor stains, otherwise, the sheet is in a good condition for its considerable age with no tears or significant stains.

I am selling this early morning scene showing the sun beginning to touch distant trees and the light of shepherds’ campfires illuminating the foreground darkness—an extraordinarily poetic etching (with engraving) by one of the most celebrated Dutch artists of the early 1600s—for AU $381 (currently US $238.21/ EUR 228.94/ GBP 189.84 at the time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU $381) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed etching from the Dutch Golden Age, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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