Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
October 1883
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Man and Woman, Coats of Arms, Ornaments, etc., with Medal of Beham and his Wife, by Hollar, prefixed, small 4to. exquzsitely fine unpressions, neatly mounted on tinted paper, russia, gilt edges, from the Beckford library, £220. This collection is a bijou; such a series of lovely engrav- ings by Beham was never before offered for sale. The works of the Little German Masters are of excessive rarity. ConTENTS :— Hollar’s H. 8. B. Medal of the two | Ascension of Christ Ses Portraits 1647 | Christ at a repast S28 Pacientia 1540 | Cleopatra 5.0. Adam and Eve 1536 | Hercules Series, 12 plates,1541-1545 Do. tempted 1543 | Die zwelf Monet — 1546 Do. expelled 1543 | The 12 months, numbered 1-12, on Omnem in homine venustatem 6 plates 1546 Mors abolet: a Woman in| A group of five persons Costume. 1541 | Klos Wuczer 1544 Do. do. naked 1547 | Hines Mannes Haupt 1542 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. 1544 Weibes 1542 S. Maria 1549 | Two Ornaments, with grotesque Fortuna 1541 head in centre Pater da mihi s. a. | Four Coats of Arms 154.4: Dissipavit substanciam 1540 | Bas-Relief _ 1544 Cupicbat implere s.a. | A BOC, two plates 1542 Filius meus mortuus No. 4s. a. | 10235 BEHAM (H. 8S.) 24 small Etchings consisting of spirited groups of 2 or 3 persons, by Beham, and 5 other small Etchings by ALDEGREVER, impl. 460. neatly mowrted on tinted paper, half bound russia, £25. 1538-46 10236 BARBARO (Daniel) la Pratica della Perspettiva; Opera molto utile a Pittori, a Scultori, et ad Architetti, large 4to. numerous woodcut diagrams and other figures, old calf gilt, £6. los Venet. CO. ed. R. Borgominiert, 1569 10237 BARRY (J.) Series of Etchings from his Paintings, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, atlas folio, 15 plates, fine impressions, half bound, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, 3. 15s 1808 10238 BARRY (J.) Series or 58 Ercutnas, including those from his Paintings in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, atlas folio, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS (many wnlettered proofs), and 3 original Sketches (including one in oil) by this celebrated artist, with his portrait prefixed, half russia, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, £36. 1808 Amongst the rarer etchings are Job reproved by his friends ; Conversion of Polemon; Jonah; King Lear; Philoctetes in Lemnos; Birth of Venus ; Earl of Chatham; Jupiter and Juno; Rise of America and Decline of Europe; Archangel triumphing over Satan; Satan rising from the fiery Gulph ; Battle of Satan and Death ; Temptation of Adam ; Adam and Eve after their Fall ; Milton dictating to Klwood the Quaker; the small Prints from old Masters ; and various Heads, etc.