After Maerten (4 results)

No Binding. Condition: Good. Rare antique print. The only other copy I can find is on the Harvard Museum website and most of the below information comes from there. Title: The Reward for Fulfilling the Tasks --antique hand colored engraving; c1585 from the Series The Divine Charge to the Three Estates; Adriaen Collaert, Flemish (c. 1560 - 1618) After Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium) Published by Philips Galle, Netherlandish (Haarlem 1537 - 1612 Antwerp). engraved in print, lower left: Martin de Vos inuen. Adrian Collaert sculp. Philip. Galle excu. overall dimensions are 9 1/8 x 11 5/8ins. "visually very good, small in hole lower right, 2 holes in the arm of the farthest right figure" FOLDER-C.

Condition: Good. Engraving. 18 x 13.3 cm (sheet). Very Good, sheet trimmed to or just within platemark.

Engraved copper printing plate depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by all manner of creatures, with Adam sitting at the foot of the tree of knowledge, about to take a bite from an apple, whilst Eve takes another from the hand of a serpentine creature coiling around the branches above. 22.7 x 19.1cm. The plate incorporating text to the foot from Genesis 3. Signed at the foot "M. de Vos invenit / Corn. Galle Sculp. / Io. Galle excudit". The plate with some old, fine scratches is otherwise in very good order. WITH: A later (mid nineteeth-century) and somewhat weak impression of the plate on paper. This laid down to board with manuscript French labels dated 1851 to the reverse apparently gifting the item from Mademoiselle C. Thyes of Brussels to "Monsieur Delpy"; the print with two pin holes to the blank lower margin and a few spots of faint foxing. A beautifully-executed original engraved copper printing plate by the Flemish engraver Cornelis Galle the Elder (1576-1650), forming a typically busy depiction of the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve sealing their fate amidst a varied menagerie of peaceable beasts, including an elephant, camel, bear, porcupine, ostrich, and rearing unicorn, amongst others. Cornelis Galle was first taught engraving by his father, the engraver and publisher Philip Galle (1537-1612). He subsequently resided in Rome for several years, where he acquired an accuracy of design and freedom of style which marked him out as a master of his art form. Following his return to Antwerp, he continued to engrave numerous plates after the works of his countrymen, as well as his own designs, becoming a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1610. The present engraving was made after an original painting by the prominent Flemish artist Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). A prolific draughtsman, de Vos produced numerous designs for the engravers of Antwerp, the resulting prints of which circulated widely in Europe and the Spanish colonies, significantly contributing to his international reputation and influence. [Hollstein XLIV.61.243].

Personification of Peace, as a young woman with sword and branches in the right raised hand and two doves perched on the other. The composition was continuing on the right with the personification of Trust/Faith. Within a niche.Signed at bottom: 'M. de vos. inue.'. Ca. 1600. Engraving on paper, trimmed within plate; total: 122 x 114 mm; damages repaired, a lacuna on the bottom left margin and one above, has been filled in with a paper patch, decoration has been reproduced; paper thin and some tiny holes. Some dirt and smudges; mounted on cardboard from the left margin only; Hollstein 1165 (different impression, but not mentioned in the catalogue).