Trans Beverley Jackson (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, London, c.1992, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 401pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G+ $.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Like Rembrandt van Rijn, the prize-winning Dutch biographer Onno Blom was born and grew up in Leiden and his book focuses on Rembrandt's early life in the city, from his birth in 1606 to his departure for Amsterdam in 1632. Illustrated with works by the artist - including many self-portraits - and his contemporaries, the book seeks the origins of Rembrandt's genius and his inspirations in the places, people, industries and institutions of 17th-century Leiden.…

OWNERSHIP OF ART CRITIC FRANCIS POUND, octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly edgeworn, with text edges faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text strong and clean. Physical description; 400 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm. Notes; Published on the occasion of the exhibition Van Dyck - a gifted engraver, Museum Plantin-Moretus/Stedelijk Prentenkabinet, Antwerp, 15 May-22 August 1999; Antoon van Dyck en de prentkunst, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 9 October 1999-9 January 2000. Contents; 'With the hand': the collecting of Van Dyck prints / Ger Luijten and Saskia Sombogaart -- Prints in progress: proofs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Ger Luijten -- On feathers, candles and wet rags: the etching technique used by Van Dyck and his contemporaries / Ad Stijnman -- 'A pupil who could translate his inventions into drawings to have them cut in copper': Anthony van Dyck and printmaking in Rubens' studio / Carl Depauw -- The Iconography: Van Dyck's portraits in print / Ger Luijten -- 'Through prints of one's art, one may become better known': prints by and after Van Dyck up to 1641 / Ger Luijten -- The inimitable Van Dyck in copper: prints from 1640 to 1800 / Ger Luijten -- The cast for the production of Van Dyck prints / Erik Duverger & Danielle Maufort. Subjects; Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, prints. Flemish printmaking, 17th century. Etching, Flanders, history. 1 Kg.…