Sales catalogue 626: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/163
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 626: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    John Thomas of Ypres—continued. 66 HEAD OF A WARRIOR; “PRO DEO ET PATRIA.” Short half length, loose coat, helmet, handle of spear across left shoulder. Mezzotint by John Thomas of Ypres, 1658. Size 83 by 6 inches. Choice impression. &A2 WALLERANT VAILLANT, 1623-1677. Vaillant was one of the artists who scraped in mezzotint before its introduction into England, he worked chiefly in Amsterdam, was a friend of Prince Rupert and entered his service to assist him in his artistic hobbies. 67 Jonah and the Whale. An enormous whale, nearly taking up the whole of the plate, is resting on the surface of the sea, and ejecting from its large wide open mouth on to some rocks to left, the figure of Jonah. Mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant. Size 114 by 14% inches, with narrow margins. &18 18s 68 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S (Waillerant Vaillant) wife and Children. Mezzotint by and after W. Vaillant. Size 143 by 113 inches, with thread margins. C.1660. £35 69 PRINCE RUPERT LEANING ON A TABLE. Half length, velvet cap with feather. Mezzotint by W. Vaillant after Prince Rupert. Size 83 by 63 inches, with narrow margins, show- ing engraver’s name only. Circa 1660. £25 WOODCUTS. German Woodcut of the XVth Century. 70 CHRIST AS SALVATOR MUNDI. Standing giving the Benediction with the right hand, the left hand holding globe surmounted by a cross, a banderole at left. Black line border. Woodcut, on a large sheet covered on the back with contemporary writing. Size 100 mm. by 63 mm. With wide margins. Circa 1450. £40 The woodcut described above is an interesting example of the work of the German school, late XVth Century. Bouchot dates it about 1450. Reproduced in the Bibliothéque National, described and dated 1450-60. 71 EARLY WOODCUT ON VELLUM. The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John on either side of the Cross, square ornamental border and inscription in Latin under. Printed onevellum from an early missal. C.1520. Size 134 by 9 inches. &6 6s [7]
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