Velde Jan, Signed (7 results)

Hollstein 108-125 first state of 2; Franken 72-89. Set of 18 engravings by and after Jan van de Velde: one titlepage and 17 portraits, each with a 4-line verse at the bottom. Each print mounted, with care and only along the edges, onto 19th cent. paper. Decorated full leather binding, signed Riviere & Son. Very good copy with very good quality prints. B0910.

Bust portrait of Jan van de Velde I, father of the artist, at the age of 53. He was writing master. Oval frame lettered:'T'LEEFT AL VANDEN VELDE. AETATIS SUAE LIII. ANNO 1621'; signed on the bottom right, but only partially visible: 'V. fe'. l Engraving on paper, trimmed within plate mark; total: 164 x 109 mm; state I/2; repaired on the bottom, thinly backed; Hollstein 414, Franken 41, Muller 5579.

Half-length portrait of Peter Goetthem, capitain of the Amsterdam militia, in oval frame. Oval frame inscribed: PETRVS GOETTHEM PRIMIPILARIS VEXILLI CIVIVM AMSTELODAMENSIVM ATAT LII A MDCXXIX , signed below: P. Saenredam / delineavit ; J.V. Velde Sculp. / ARoman exc. ; above inscribed: DOMINVS PROVIDEBIT l Engraving on paper trimmed within plate mark, pasted on thicker paper; total: 226 x 147 mm; state I/2; Hollstein 397, Franken 18, van Someren 1892.

Bust portrait Peter Scriverius (1576-1660) at the age of 50, in an oval frame, holding gloves in his right hand. Scriverius was a writer and scholar on the history of Holland. Inscribed in the oval frame: PETRVS SCRIVERIVS. LEGENDO ET SCRIBENDO , on the bottom inscription in Latin: ILLIVS ORA. DEXTERA PANGET OPVS , signed at the bottom: Harlemi Fr. Hals pinxit. I. v. Velde sculpsit. On pedestal also the age and the date: Aetatis 50 / A. 1626. l Engraving on paper, with small margins; plate mark: 268 x 157 mm; total: 282 x 164 mm; state III/3; Hollstein 407, Franken 33, Muller 4901.

Engraving inspired by the portrait at the Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem, inv. 1-511). Under the portrait an anonymous Latin poem. "Ad: m. Rdo. Amplissimusq. D.D. JACOBUS ZAFFIUS Cathedral Eccles [.] Memento Ĉternitatis". Signed left: 'FHals / pinxit'; right: 'J.V. Velde / sculpsit anno / 1630'; bottom left: 'J.J. Proost excudit'. l Engraving, margins; plate mark: 265 x 170 mm; total: 272 x 178 mm; state III/3 some dirt on the borders; Hollstein 416; Franken 44, van Someren 6263.

Frontispiece to a set of 26 etchings with various landscapes. Plates were reworked over time. An old city gate at the center with two figures walking towards the opening; 'the city walls have crumbled to the point that the portal seems superfluous, merely signifying a liminal boundary to the landscape beyond'. The title, on the top of the gate, reads: 'AMENISSIMAE ALIQUOT REGIUNCULAE, A / I. VELDIO DELINEATAE, ET A NICOLAO IO: / HANNIS PISCATORE IN LUCEM AEDITAE.' 'The text/image juxtaposition may be intended as a play on the words "amoenus" (pleasant) and "estra moenia" (outside the walls) or "a/ab moenia" (from the walls), where one finds such pleasant places.' [quotations from Robert Fucci, 'Arcadia Unbound: Early Dutch landscape prints and the Amenissimae aliquot reginculae of 1616 by Jan van de Velde II', in Art in Print, vol 4, nr. 5 (2015), p. 4]. Signed at bottom: 'CJVisscher excudebat'; on the top of the door: 'Eerste Deel'. From the collection of Giuseppe Storck (1766-1836) [L.2318]: 'G. Storck a Milano 1798. / In St.o 4572. No. 12 (16 crossed over) s2'. l Etching on paper, trimmed within plate; total: 130 x 197, state II/4; evenly yellowed paper, notes in pencil and pen and brown ink on the verso; Hollstein 232, Fr. 271.

View on the ruins of the caslte of Teylingen. Signed on the bottom left:'De la Cour Ex'. / I.W. fecit' numbered low right corner '1'. Titled in the middle of the sky:'Teijlinghen'. Unknown state from Hollstein; text below removed but still traceable. l Etching on paper, trimmed within plate mark; total: 131 x 215 mm; state V(?)/5(?); Hollstein 17, Franken & van der Kellen (1883), n. 196, p. 93.