Lot 97
Heemskerck, Maarten van (1498-1574)
[Volume of prints]
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
10 copper-engravings after Heemskerck by various engravers, 16th-17th century, mounted in a 19th-century tan half calf album (one print to a leaf, rectos only, mount dimensions (36 x 25.5cm), prints of various dimensions, comprising: Nabal refusing to send Food to David; Claes Janszoon Visscher, Naboth falsely accused; Jan Galle, The Triumph of War; Jan Galle, The Triumph of Envy; The Triumph of Humility; Cholerici; Hieronymus Cock, Ahab rending his Clothes; Judith with the Head of Holofernes; Shaphan reading the Book of the Law to Josiah; Philip Galle for Hieronymus Cock, The Angel Ascending in the Flame on the Altar of Manoah and his Wife (circular print, trimmed near to platemark); and a woodcut after Heemskerck, Tobit and Tobias kneeling before Raphael, monogram M in print, similarly mounted; and 2 further prints, similarly mounted but laid in (after van Heemskerck engraved by Dirk Volkertsz Coornhert; after Polidoro da Caravaggio by Giorgio Ghisi).
Together with 7 further engraved prints, various sizes (Italian, 17th century) mainly relating to architecture and antiquities in Rome, and 1 aquatint/engraving c. 1768 by James Basire after Nicolas Poussin's ‘Triumph of Silenus' (trimmed with loss of artist, engraver and publisher details in bottom margin, frame of cardboard mount detached from backing) (1 volume, 1 folder)