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ABRAHAM HECKE, c1630. The Four Elements - Terra. This original set of engravings is for sale, price £3500 JAMES McBEY, Newburgh, Aberdeen 1883 – 1959 Tangiers. Gale at Port Erroll Hardie. This original drypoint is for sale, priced £600 GEORG ALEXANDER MATHÉY, Hermannstadt, Sudentenland 1884 – 1968 Buchendorf. Cirque de Paris. This original woodcut is sold CELIA M FIENNES, 1902 – 1998 Culworth, Oxfordshire. Cockerel & Eagle. This original wood engraving is for sale, priced £125

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ABRAHAM HECKE, c1630. The Four Elements - Ignis. This original set of engravings is for sale, price £3500

ABRAHAM HECKE, c1630. The Four Elements - Aer. This original set of engravings is for sale, price £3500

ABRAHAM HECKE, c1630. The Four Elements - Aqua. This original set of engravings is for sale, price £3500

ABRAHAM HECKE, c1630. The Four Elements - Terra. This original set of engravings is for sale, price £3500

 

ABRAHAM HECKE
(or van de HECKEN, or HECKIUS)
A Dutch Mannerist engraver active in the early years of the 17th Century

The Four Elements
Hollstein (Heckius) 2-5
102 x 136 mm
The set of four, engraved ovals on rectangular plates, c1600.
The plates numbered.

Published in Cologne by Gerhard Altzenbach (an engraver, printer, publisher and printseller active 1609 – 1672).

Ignis, plate 1, with Alztenbach’s name.
Presumably a later issue, c1630?

Good, clear impressions, with small margins, except for the left edge of Aqua which is trimmed just inside the platemark, but outside of the oval borderline. A slight stain on Terra. The bottom right corner of the margin of Terra replaced. Other minor defects. A rare set.

£3500

In the order that the plates are numbered -

Ignis (Fire) shows the flames of Hell, or the classical Tarturus, where the wicked were tormented. Orpheus plays the lyre to Pluto, ‘king’ of the Underworld in his effort to release Eurydice.

In Aer (Air) Juno, to whom the air was sacred, presides, with her attribute the peacock beside her, and Jupiter, holding his lightning bolt and with his eagle, at her feet, over a gathering of the gods in the clouds high above the earth. The sun god dries his quadrega, and winged putti fly around.

For Aqua (Water) Neptune sits astride his chariot pulled by seahorses, while tritons and nereids cavort in a sea-bound grotto, oysters and a lobster strewn at their feet. Beyond a great crowd hold an array of fish, and a turtle, on fishing rods.

The landscape of Terra (Earth) has the drunken Silenus sprawling on the back of his ass assisted by satyrs. Music is being played among the vines and cherubs carry baskets of fruit.

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JAMES McBEY, Newburgh, Aberdeen 1883 – 1959 Tangiers. Gale at Port Erroll Hardie. This original drypoint is for sale, priced £600

 

JAMES McBEY
Newburgh, Aberdeen 1883 – 1959 Tangiers

Gale at Port Erroll
Hardie 215 i/vi
331 x 225 mm
Original drypoint, 1923.
Signed and annotated in ink Trial I.

The unique impression in the first trial state. Before the two figures at the lower left.
(A total of 8 trial proofs in the six trial states preceded the edition of 76.)
Printed on antique laid paper.
Mount-stained in the margins, and with a few marginal foxmarks related to paper impurities. A supported tear in the margin at the top right corner of the sheet.

£600

A ‘zulu’ fishing boat, sail lowered, making entrance to Port Erroll harbour on the Aberdeenshire coast.

McBey enjoyed sailing, and crewed for fellow artist Arthur Briscoe in the latter’s forty foot yacht ‘The Golden Vanity’.

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GEORG ALEXANDER MATHÉY, Hermannstadt, Sudentenland 1884 – 1968 Buchendorf. Cirque de Paris. This original woodcut is sold

 

GEORG ALEXANDER MATHÉY
Hermannstadt, Sudentenland 1884 – 1968 Buchendorf

A Berlin painter, draughtsman and Expressionist illustrator, from 1916-18 Mathéy edited and wrote for the periodical Wieland. After the First World War he travelled frequently to France and Spain.

Cirque de Paris
254 x 224 mm
Original woodcut, 1922.
Signed in pencil. Published by Die Schaffenden 1922.
W ith the blindstamp.
Edition of 125.
On hand-made paper.

Sold

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CELIA M FIENNES, 1902 – 1998 Culworth, Oxfordshire. Cockerel & Eagle. This original wood engraving is for sale, priced £125

 

 

CELIA M FIENNES
Brentford, 1902 – 1998 Culworth, Oxfordshire

A direct descendent of the 17th century traveller of the same name, Celia Fiennes studied wood engraving with Noel Rooke at the Central School of Art, London; and some years later, married him.

She was the last survivor of the group of wood engravers chosen by Gibbings to illustrate for the Golden Cockerel Press between the wars.

Cockerel & Eagle
44 x 84 mm
Original wood engraving, 1926.

Engraved to illustrate the Aesop Fable of The Eagle and the two cockerels, commissioned for the 1926 Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Fables of Aesop.

Artist’s proof impression, signed in pencil.
On japan. A little time-stained.

£125

The winner of the cockfight crowing his triumph on a rooftop, oblivious of the forthcoming comeuppance from an eagle.

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