Matthias Kager & Raphael Custos’ etching, “Frieze with Satyrs and Grotesque Creatures Surrounded by Scrollwork”, c.1610

Matthias Kager (aka Johann Matthias Kager) (1575–1634) and

Raphael Custos (aka Raphael Custodis) (c1590–1664).

(Note that the initials of both artists are inscribed on the plate as the etchers.)

“Frieze with Satyrs and Grotesque Creatures Surrounded by Scrollwork”, c.1610, published in Augsburg in “Neuw GrottesskenBuch” (New Book of Grotesques) in 1610 in three parts with this print featuring in the third issue, “Der Tadesckisch Radesco Baum ...”.

“Neuw GrottesskenBuch” is available for online viewing or may be downloaded free-of-charge from archive.org (see p. 174 featuring this print):

https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008528032/page/n173/mode/2up.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 7.9 x 26.6 cm; (plate) 7 x 26 cm; (image borderline) 6.7 x 25.9 cm.

Inscribed on plate on the lower-centre volute: “MK. RC. F.”

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed early impression with a small margin around the platemark. The sheet has a restored tear at left-of-centre otherwise it is in an excellent/museum quality-condition and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this superb ornamental frieze from the early 1600s featuring a cross-legged figure cradling an umbrella while seated on cart drawn by two satyrs and a bird, for AU$188 (currently US$120.88/EUR110.82/GBP102.44 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

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

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Matthias Kager's etching, “Satyr with Woman in Hammock”, c1610

Matthias Kager (aka Johann Matthias Kager) (1575–1634)

“Satyr with Woman in Hammock” (Rijksmuseum title), c1610/1611, from the series of sixteen (?) plates, “Frisians with grotesque figures in stylized tendrils” (Rijksmuseum title), published by Raphael Custos (aka Raphael Custodis) (c1590–1664) in Augsburg.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed with small margins around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 7.8 x 24.3 cm; (plate) 6.9 x 23.2 cm; (image borderline) 6.6 x 23 cm.

Inscribed on plate on the hem of the tablecloth at lower left: “MK. F[?]”.

Orn Cat II 498 (Peter Fuhring 2004, “Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the Seventeenth Century”, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Sound and Vision, Part 1, p. 118, cat.no. 498).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print:

(transl.) “On the left is a table with food and in the middle is a satyr with a shield above his head holding a hagmat [hangmat?]. It says on the tablecloth: MK. F. Sheet from series of 16 (?) sheets.”

(http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.416002)

Condition: a superb, richly inked near faultless early impression, trimmed with small margins around the platemark. The sheet has a small dot stain on the hammock otherwise it is in museum quality condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing) and has been laid on a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this superb ornamental frieze from the early 1600s, for AU$188 (currently US$130.21/EUR116.16/GBP102.44 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this Renaissance period engraving, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Raphael Custos' engraving, “Ornament panel with satyr, offering bowl and running maiden”, c1610, after Matthias Kager

Raphael Custos (aka Raphael Custodis) (c1590–1664)

“Ornament panel with satyr, offering bowl and running maiden” (descriptive title only), c1610/1611, from the series of sixteen (?) plates, “Frisians with grotesque figures in stylized tendrils” (Rijksmuseum title) after Matthias Kager (aka Johann Matthias Kager) (1575–1634), published by Raphael Custos in Augsburg.

Etching with engraving on fine laid paper trimmed with small margins around the platemark (viz. a 4 mm margin at top, left and lower edge and replenished on right edge) and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet with replenished right edge) 7.9 x 26.7 cm;

Inscribed on plate on spiral at lower left: “MK. Inve. RC F. [“ex” (?)]“.

Condition: a superb, richly inked early impression, trimmed with small margins around the platemark except on the right side of the sheet which has a replenished margin. There is a restored area at the lower centre of the image and the sheet has been laid on a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this eye-catching ornamental frieze from the early 1600s, for AU$188 (currently US$130.21/EUR116.16/GBP102.44 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this Renaissance period engraving, 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