Jan van de Velde II, “Figures on a Country Road Near a Farm”, 1616

Jan van de Velde II (c.1593–1641)

“Figures on a Country Road Near a Farm” (aka “Figuren op een landweg bij een boerderij”), 1616, plate 2 (as numbered at lower right corner) from part 4 (as numbered in the upper right corner) of the series, “Sixty Landscapes”—a series of sixty etchings grouped in five parts of twelve prints—printed in Amsterdam by Claes Jansz. Visscher (aka Nicolaes Jansz. Visscher; Piscator) 1587–1652), as inscribed in the title plate to the series (see https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200393054).

Etching on fine laid paper, trimmed around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 12.3 x 19 cm.

Numbered in plate: (upper right corner) “4”; (lower right corner) “2”.

Hollstein 269 (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. 269); Franken & Van der Kellen 308 (Daniel Franken & Johan Philip van der Kellen 1883, “L'oeuvre gravé de Jan van de Velde II”, Amsterdam, p.122, cat. no. 308).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum and the British Museum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200392999; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-5961.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed around the image borderline and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this superb etching from the early 1600s showing what is still an everyday scene of travellers asking for directions—note, however, that the depiction of the culvert in the foreground along with the huge boulder at left might also be seen by viewers from Van de Velde’s time as visual reminders (“telling signs”) of the natural forces of the divine underpinning everyday life—for AU $374 (currently US $233.05/ EUR 223.96/ GBP 18748 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 $374) 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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