Jan Kip’s double-sided sheet of engravings illustrating Genesis, 1688, after G Freman

Jan Kip (aka Johannes Kip: John Kip) (1652/3–1722)

Double-sided sheet of engravings: “Plate 1: The Creation of ye World, or the six days worke” and “Plate 2: The Creation of Adam”, 1688, after the design by G Freman (aka G Freeman) (fl.1688–1690), published in London by Richard Blome (1635–c1705) and printed by Samuel Roycroft (fl.1665–1690) in John Coughern’s translation of Nicolas Fonatine’s (1625–1709) “The History of the Old Testament” (1688-1690) (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1931-0826-2-17).

Engravings on laid paper trimmed unevenly with narrow margins.

Size: (sheet) 33.7 x 21.3 cm; (plate 1 outer image borderline) 32.5 x 19 cm; (plate 2 outer image borderline) 32.8 x 19.7 cm.

Plate 1

Inscribed on plate: (in sky at upper centre) “Fiat Lux” (transl. “Let there be light”); (within the image borderline along lower edge) “G. Freman delin: […] J Kip. Sculp:”; (below the image borderline) “(1) The Creation of ye World, or the six days worke. [ …] Genesis 1.”

Plate 2

Inscribed on plate: (banderole the royal coat of arms at centre held by two putti) “To her Sacred […] Majesty Mary/ by the Grace of God […] Queen of England/ Scotland, France […] and Ireland […]/ This Plate in all […] humility is humbly/ dedicated by yo […]. Ma.tys / most obedient/ Subject Richard Blome.”; (within the image borderline along lower edge) “G. Freman delin: […] J Kip. Sculp”; (below the image borderline) “2) […] The Creation of Adam. [ …] Genesis 1.”

Condition: strong impressions on both sides of the sheet showing no sign of wear to the printing plates, trimmed slightly unevenly around the platemarks of both engravings with small margins around the image borderlines. The sheet is in excellent condition with no tears, folds, holes, abrasions, significant stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this superb double-sided sheet of two engravings that are the first plates for an illustrated account of the Old Testament, for AU$284 (currently US$218.92/EUR181.11/GBP157.24 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this very rare sheet of engravings from the late 1600s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Orazio Borgianni’s etching, “David Killing Goliath”, 1615

Orazio Borgianni (aka Orazio Borgiani) (c1578–1616)

“David Killing Goliath” (TIB title) (aka “David tue le géant Goliath”; “David Beheads Goliath”), 1615 (inscribed on plate), plate 42 from the series of 52 etchings after Raphael (1483–1520), “The Loggia Paintings” (TIB title) in the Vatican.

Etching on fine laid paper, trimmed around the plate mark with a thread margin and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 16.5 x 19.5 cm.

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower-right corner) “1615 / [ligature monogram of artist]”

Numbered on plate: (lower-left corner) “42”.

State i (of i)

TIB 38 (17).42(319) (Walter L Strauss [ed.] 1979, “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 38, New York, Abaris Books, p. 401, cat. no. 42 [319]); Bartsch XVII.319.42 (Adam Bartsch 1803–21, “Le Peintre graveur”, vol. 17, p. 319, cat. no. 42).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print:

(transl.) “Goliath is on the ground. David stands over him and lifts Goliath's sword over his head, ready to decapitate him. On the left, the Philistines flee, while Saul's soldiers give chase”

(http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.85394).

See also the description of this print offered by the British Museum:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1893-1018-19-38.

Condition: a strong impression showing a slight movement in the printing process trimmed around the platemark and laid onto an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The sheet has restoration to the lower left corner, otherwise it is in an excellent condition for its considerable age.

I am selling this superb etching executed in the last year of the artist’s life and based on the design of the legendary Raphael who had passed away only 95 years before this print was created, for AU$257 (currently US$199.37/EUR164.50/GBP143.10 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this rare and very interesting Renaissance period print—note the artist’s somewhat crude attempt to create the illusion that the image is edged with a window-box frame by portraying light cast on it from the upper right—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Franz Joachim Beich’s etching, “Two Fishermen on the Bank of a Stream”, c1712

Franz Joachim Beich (aka Joachim Franz Beich) (1665–1748)

“Two Fishermen on the Bank of a Stream”, c1712 (1700–1724), plate 4 from a series of six landscape etchings in the manner of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), published in Augsburg by Jeremias Wolff (1663–1724).

Etching on laid paper trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 23.4 x 14.6 cm; (image borderline) 23.1 x 14.2 cm.

Inscribed on plate at lower right corner with ligature monogram within the image borderline: “FB fecit.”

State ii (of iv) note that the upper tip of the number “4” (signifying state iii) is not visible in this impression.

Nagler/Meyer 1 ii (Julius Meyer 1872–85, “Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon” [2nd revised edition of Nagler's Artist Lexicon], vol. 3, p. 338, cat. no. 1); Andresen 1 ii (Andreas Andresen 1864–78, “Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur ... von dem letzten Drittel des 16 Jahrhunderts bis zum Schluss des 18 Jahrhunderts”, Leipzig, cat. no. 1).

The British Museum offers a description of this print: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-7285.
See also the description offered by the Rijksmuseum (not reproduced): http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.76521.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed lifetime impression, trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline and laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There is a dot stain at the upper right otherwise the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this remarkably romantic etching with its stylistic lean towards the Baroque Italianate landscapes of Salvator Rosa, for the total cost of AU$243 (currently US$190.36/EUR156.53/GBP136.56 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.

If you are interested in purchasing this marvellous landscape executed with great spirit, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi’s etching, “The Soldiers of Cyrus Attacking the Army of Spargabise”, c1650, after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (1619-c1678)

“The Soldiers of Cyrus Attacking the Army of Spargabise” (MET title) (aka “The Soldiers of Cyrus Tearing Apart the Army of Spargabise” [TIB title]; “Les soldats de Cyrus taillant en pièces l'armée de Spargabise”; ), c1650 (1640–1660 [BM dates]), plate 4 in the series, “Subjects from Roman History” [Havard title]), after Polidoro da Caravaggio’s (aka Polidoro da Caravagio; Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio; Polidoro Caldara) (c1500–1536/7 [BM dates]) fresco on the façade of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome—sadly the frescoes on the façade have almost completely vanished by deterioration.

Etching on laid paper trimmed with a thread margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 10.9 x 12.3 cm.

Inscribed on plate in lower left tablet: “POLIDORO. INVENTORE. Gio. Batta. Galestruzzi 4/ fe.”

TIB 46 (21).6 (54) (Paolo Bellini [ed.] 1982, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century”, vol. 46, Abaris Books, New York, p. 79, cat. no. 6[54]); Bartsch XXI.54.6.

See the descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum and the Harvard Art Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1856-1213-49; https://hvrd.art/o/234737.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, showing no sign of wear to the printing plate, trimmed with a thread margin around the image borderline and laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There is a minor restoration to chipping at the upper left corner, otherwise the sheet is in excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, stains or foxing.

I am selling this historically important etched frieze that is a surviving visual record of Polidoro da Caravaggio’s now lost—in the sense of badly deteriorated—fresco on the façade of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome, for the total cost of AU$287 (currently US$229.47/EUR188.08/GBP162.21 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.

If you are interested in purchasing this small but visually arresting battle scene from the mid-1600s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Note that I have listed another three-panel etching by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi that is currently available for the same price: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2018/11/giovanni-battista-galestruzzis-etching.html.

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Two sections of Gremeret et Pacaud Dessins’ gouache design, “Floral Motifs”, 1940

House of Gremeret et Pacaud Dessins (10 Rue de la Republique, 69001, Lyon) (1900–1989)

“Floral Motifs” (descriptive title only), 1940, two sections of a hand-painted gouache design (presumably for wallpaper or textile manufacturing) laid on separate support sheets with the ink stamp of Gremeret et Pacaud Dessins attached below the left vertical panel.

Gouache on heavy cream wove paper trimmed into sections and reassembled as two decorative panels backed with separate support sheets with the washi surface of the support acting as a border.

Size of left vertical panel (including support sheet border): 64.3 x 49.9 cm

Size of right horizontal panel (including support sheet border): 44.9 x 54.8 cm

Condition: both sheets are restored so that handling marks and cracks in the brittle hand-painted gouache (i.e., opaque watercolour) have been removed/stabilised. The two sections have been laid on separate support sheets of washi paper laminated to heavy archival paper with generous margins.

I am selling this pair of hand-painted gouache designs (presumably for wallpaper or textile manufacturing?) by the design house, Gremeret et Pacaud Dessins, for AU$260 in total for the two panels (currently US$206.05/EUR169.35/GBP145.76 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing these very beautiful hand-painted gouache panels by a firm specialising in silk textile designs, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.