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HENDRIK HONDIUS the elder
Duffel 1573 – 1650 The Hague

Engraver, etcher, draughtsman and publisher, trained by Godefroy de Gelder and Johannes Wierix, professionally Hondius served as an office holder in the Guild of St Luke in The Hague. He was also an Elder in the Counter-Remonstrant Church.

Three Peasants
New Hollstein 60 ii/ii 209 x 156 mm

Original etching and engraving, 1644.
One of a series of five ‘Allegorical Landscapes’.
Second state, with Clement de Jongh’s address.

A fine impression, in generally very good condition. With margins. Watermark: Fool’s Cap.

£1350

An emblematic print involving animals, with a passing visual reference to the infant Zeus suckled by the goat Amalthea.

The Dutch text at the foot reads

Hoe wys-lyck doet ghy o’Godt uwe saken,
Alle Creáturen ú goetheyt smaken.

(How wisely do you, oh God, do your business,
All creatures taste of your goodness.)

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ALBANY HOWARTH A.R.E.
1872 – 1936 Watford

Ponte delle Guglie, Venice
148 x 205 mm

Original etching. The plate signed. A proof in the 1st state. Signed in pencil, entitled and annotated. On laid paper. A pressure weakness at the plate edge, bottom left. A small thin patch in the margins in the bottom left corner of the sheet.

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ARABELLA LOUISA RANKIN
Muthill, Perthshire 1871 - 1943 Muthill

Probably the daughter of a Scottish minister, Arabella Rankin was a watercolour painter and woodcut artist.

She exhibited from 1889 to 1935, principally at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Glasgow Institute and with the Society of women Artists.
She moved first to Edinburgh and later to Paddington in London, before finally returning to Scotland.

Coastal Inlet
205 x 274 mm
Original colour woodcut.

Signed in pencil and numbered 3 from an unspecified, probably small, edition. On japan.

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LEON COGNIET.
Paris 1794 – 1880 Paris

Cogniet enjoyed a long success and high reputation as a history and portrait painter. The lithographed portrait of Géricault is from early in his career, possibly even done in Rome, where the two young artists probably coincided. Cogniet was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1817 and Géricault spent the years 1816-1818 in Florence and Rome.

The portrait could equally date from 1819 when Géricault had a succès de scandale in Paris with his painting ‘The Raft of the Medusa’; or even 1823/24 after Géricault returned from his extended visit to England, and shortly before his early death, also recorded in a portrait by Cogniet.

Portrait of the Romantic artist
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)
154 x 145 mm (image); 216 x 173 mm (tint stone)
Original lithograph.

Printed in black ink on a cream tint.
On wove paper with large margins. Some surface dirt.

An unidentified collector’s ink script initials verso, just visible showing through verso (unknown to Lugt).

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