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View of the main road of Laeken, a village near Brussels. On the road some walkers. The print is part of a series featuring views from the Brussels area.Titled on the top right corner: Te Laken op den rechten wech.Numbered on the bottom right corner: 7.[NL] Gezicht op de hoofdweg van Laken, een dorp vlakbij Brussel. Op de weg enkele wandelaars. De prent is deel van een serie met gezichten uit de omgeving van Brussel. Gemaakt door Hans Collaert I. Engraving on laid paper, trimmed close to plate mark; total: 139 x 200 mm; state II/2; some rubbing due to handling, traces of previous mounting on verso, otherwise in good condition. Mounted on cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 1235.
[24] ll.Album with the complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels, here in its first unnumbered state, published by Hans van Luyck in Antwerp. Hans I Collaert (ca. 1525/30 - 1585) was a painter-draughtsman who founded the influential Collaert dynasty of engravers and print publishers. The views show villages, castles and abbeys in the vicinity of Brussels, engraved in a very naturalistic way. The series includes a view of the cloister of Zevenborren (south of Sint-Genesius-Rode), views of Schaarbeek, Elsene, Etterbeek, Stal, Eggevoort and Bosvoorde, and views of the some castles, including those of Brussels, Coensborg (south of Laken) and Carloo. Some references attribute the drawing of the views to Hans Bol because of an inscription added to the first plate of the later Visscher edition, but the "related drawings are not consistent with Bol's style" (New Hollstein). Others name Jacob Grimmer as an alternative candidate for the artist who drew the views.With a 20th-century manuscript inscription on the first free endleaf, mistakenly identifying the series as the second state published by Visscher, which is however numbered in the plates in contrast to the present series in an unnumbered first state. Binding slightly worn around the edges, some slight marginal foxing, stains, browning and soiling, but overall a beautiful album, complete and therefore rare with all the plates of Collaert's views around Brussels, here in its first state.l Hollstein IV, 149-172; New Hollstein, The Collaert dynasty V, 1229-1252; cf. New Hollstein, The Collaert dynasty I, pp. xlix-liii.