Unknown Printmaker (5 results)

Etching with aquatint and stipple on cream laid paper, 7 x 4 3/4 inches (175 x 120 mm), full margins. With a stamped signature including the date in the lower right image area, and the English Pintmakers blind stamp, lower left sheet margin. In very good condition with extremely small dog-ear shaped hard crease lower left sheet corner. A lovely 19th century Parisien interior scene.

Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 12 x 7 inches (304 x 172mm), full margins. Signed illegibly in pencil, lower right, with a charming remarque image of a book vendor on the lower margin. In very nice condition with extremely minor toning in the lower sheet corners.

Engraving printed in black ink on hand-made, thin-laid paper, 3 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches (84 x 84 mm), 3/4 inch margins. In excellent condition, printed 19th century.

Sequitur superbos ulter a tergo Deus. Opschrift boven een afbeelding van een eigenaardige optocht waarin o.m. R.H. van Someren (1787-1851), verffabrikant, burgemeester van Kralingen en dichter ('Ik ben toch de grooste en meest vereerde dichter in Nederland') en een twintigtal andere personen (o.a. Ternede(n), notaris Kley, Moll) en een lijkkist met opschrift Phoenix. Litho, anoniem, [1848?]. Van Stolk 7459; niet in Muller, hist. Zeldzame en moeilijk te duiden spotprent op de op letterkundig gebied verwaande fabrikant-dichter, die in 1848 octrooi verkreeg op zijn muurverf (vergelijk Van Stolk 7458). In de prent verwijzingen o.a. naar vervalsing van verf. Van Stolk geeft een uitvoerige nadere beschrijving. Litho. 32x43 cm.

Representation of one of the battles conduced by Michele Arcangelo Pezza, also known as Fra Diavolo, at the end of the eighteenth century. He was a famous Neapolitan guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an inspirational practitioner of popular insurrection. Pezza figures prominently in folklore and fiction. He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas, including The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon, not published until 2007 and in Washington Irving's short story "The Inn at Terracina". His nick-name Fra Diavolo (litterally Brother Devil) was given to him when he was a young boy. Soon after he was born he became sick. His mother swore to St. Francis of Paola that he would take care of his sick son. In return the child would have been wearing a sackcloth until complete consumption. Michele recovered so during his childhood he wore the sackcloth. Once at school his unsettled behavior made his teacher pronounce such words as: You are not Friar Michele Arcangelo! You are Friar Devil! . Thence he was renown with such a name throughout his all life. This large woodcut was probably an image of a popular publication from Ulm or Nurenberg from around 1830. In the typical and somewhat primitive style of the popular graphic arts from the first half of the nineteenth century. Titled above: Fra Diavolo, oder die grossen rauber in den Abruzzen. Woodcut on paper; total: 395 x 470 mm; brown stain on he top left corner otherwise in very good conditions.