Prints and Principles

Most of the recent posts give details about individual prints and earlier posts discuss some of the subtle principles guiding artists in making images meaningful and memorable. For prints that are unsold, click "Items still available for sale" below. All other prints are no longer available. My contact email is oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com and my Instagram username is @printsandprinciples. I have created a separate blog to show my own work: https://printsandprinciplesjamesbrown.blogspot.com

Sunday, 3 August 2025

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 'S Gravesande, “Polder at Weesp”, 1875

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 'S Gravesande (aka. Charles Storm van Gravesande) (1841–1924)

“Polder at Weesp” (aka. “Un Polders Près D'Amsterdam”) —a polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by dykes using windmills for drainage, 1875, a rare proof-state impression before lettering for publication as plate 288 in the art periodical, “L'Illustration Nouvelle par une Société de Peintres-Graveurs à l'Eau-Forte”, volume 7, 1875. Hamburger Kunsthalle offers a description of this print with the published lettering: https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/73069.

Etching on tissue-thin Japanese paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 15.4 x 25.7cm; (plate) 12.7 x 23.4cm; (image borderline) 11.5 x 22cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower right corner) “Ch. de Gravesande pinx. et sculps.”

State i (of ii) before lettering for publication.

Rice 80 (Richard Austin 1887, “Catalogue of etchings and dry-points by Charles Storm van's Gravesande”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A. Mudge & Son, p. 17, cat. no. 80 [see https://archive.org/details/catalogueetchin00artsgoog/page/n19/mode/2up]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed proof-state impression trimmed with small margins around the platemark and laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond a flattened fold in the margin at upper left, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this expansive view of lowlands surrounding Amsterdam and the windmills that drain and regulate the spread of water, for AU$240 (approximately US$155.50, EUR 134.12, or GBP 117.09), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed and very beautiful etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold