Aegidius Sadeler II, “Landscape with Crossed Tree Trunks”, c. 1610, after Pieter Stevens II

Aegidius Sadeler II (also known as Ægedius Sadeler, Egidius Sadeler, Gillis Sadeler, and Gillis Sadler) (1568–1629)

“Landscape with Crossed Tree Trunks” (TIB title) (also known as “Landscape with Mountain Stream” [Rijksmuseum] and “Landscape with a Torrent” [MET]), c. 1610 (1597–1629)

Technical Details & Condition:

Etching and engraving on buff laid paper with a partial watermark and a small margin around the platemark. This is a lifetime impression of state i (of iii)—prior to the addition of Marco Sadeler’s name (fl. 1660s) as publisher in the second state, and before its erasure in the third state.

The print is based on a lost drawing by Pieter Stevens II (c. 1567–after 1626), and it is the second plate in the eight-part series “Eight Bohemian Riverscapes and Landscapes.” 

The impression is strong, crisp, and well-printed, showing no signs of wear to the printing plate. Aside from some pencil notations on the verso from past collectors, the sheet is in near-pristine condition, free of tears, holes, folds, abrasions, or significant stains.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 21.5 x 29.5 cm
• Platemark: 20.2 x 28.6 cm
• Image borderline: 19.2 x 28.5 cm

In-Plate Lettering:

• Lower left in the writing edge: “ÆG: Sadeler excud:”
• Lower left of centre within the image: “Pe. S. In.”

References:

• TIB 7201.276 S4 (Isabelle de Ramaix, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Ægedius Sadeler II”, vol. 72, Part 1 [Supplement], 1997, New York, Abaris Books, p. 80, cat. no. [7201].276 S4)
• Hollstein 256 (Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer [comp.], “Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700: Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II: text” vol 21, 1982, Amsterdam, Van Gendt & Co, p. 53, cat. no. 256)
• “Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/730707  
• Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200247391  

Price & Shipping:

AU$462 (approximately US$316.39 / €274.24 / £239.18), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties (if any) are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this superb engraving—an early, lifetime impression in near-pristine condition—by one of the most important Flemish Mannerist printmakers, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I’ll be happy to send a PayPal invoice for a smooth and secure transaction.

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Aegidius Sadeler II, “Hunters Resting near Three Trees”, after Pieter Stevens II

Aegidius Sadeler II (also known as Ægedius Sadeler, Egidius Sadeler, Gillis Sadeler, and Gillis Sadler) (1568–1629)

“Hunters Resting near Three Trees” (TIB title) or, as titled in plate, “Marécage près de Bâle en Suisse” (Marsh near Basel in Switzerland), c. 1620 (1586–1629)

Technical Details & Condition:

Etching and engraving on fine laid paper, trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline. The sheet has been professionally supported on archival washi paper, with restorations to the edges. 

This print is based on a drawing by Pieter Stevens II (c. 1567–after 1626), housed in the Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa. It is the fifth plate from the series “Eight landscapes from Bohemia.” This impression is from the fourth and final state, lettered with the title, “Marécage près de Bâle en Suisse.” It was initially published by Aegidius Sadeler, later by Marco Sadeler (fl. 1660s), and—as with this impression—by Jean François Daumont (fl. 1740–1775) in Paris during the 1700s.

The impression is strong, crisp, and well-printed, showing no signs of wear to the printing plate. The upper right corner of the sheet has been replenished, as have areas along the lower writing edge, with careful restoration.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 17.3 x 26.2 cm
• Image Borderline: 15.9 x 25.6 cm

In-Plate Lettering (below the image borderline):

• Left: “Gravé par Sadeler.”
• Centre: “Marécage près de Bâle en Suisse.”
• Right: “A Paris chés Daumont”

References:

• TIB 7201.276 S4 (Isabelle de Ramaix, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Ægedius Sadeler II”, vol. 72, Part 1 [Supplement], 1997, New York, Abaris Books, p. 80, cat. no. [7201].276 S4)
• Hollstein 267 (Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer [comp.], “Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700: Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II: text” vol 21, 1982, Amsterdam, Van Gendt & Co, p. 110, cat. no. 267)
• “Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/720134
• Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200247402

Price & Shipping:

AU$281 (approximately US$194.96 / €168.63 / £146.03), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties (if any) are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this finely executed and luminous view of a marsh near Basel in Switzerland—animated with figures engaged in their daily pursuits—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I will be happy to send a PayPal invoice for a smooth and secure transaction.

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Marcus Gheeraerts I, “Fable of the Fly and the Ants”, 1567

Marcus Gheeraerts I (also known as Marc Garrard, Marcus Geraerts, Marc Gerards, and Marcus Gheraerts) (1516/21–circa 1590)
“Fable of the Fly and the Ants” (titled in the plate, “De Vlieghe en Mieren” [The Flies and Ants]), 1567 (published in 1617)

The Rijksmuseum provides the following explanation of this fable regarding Aegidius Sadeler II’s (c.1570–1629) mirror copy of Marcus Gheeraerts’ engraving (Hollstein Dutch 390):
“A group of ants in front of a tree. A fly in the air. The fable tells of the fly bragging to the ants about its wonderful life. The ants praise their own industriousness. When winter comes, the fly dies, while the ants survive on the fruits of their labour. The moral of the story teaches that industriousness is a virtue and idleness a vice.”
https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200247581

Technical Details & Condition:
Etching on fine laid paper with full margins as published, featuring Dutch letterpress text above and below the engraving, and verso. The impression is strong, and the sheet is in excellent condition, free of tears, holes, folds, abrasions, or significant stains.

The print is plate 57 from a series of 125 plates published in Amsterdam (possibly by Sander Wybrantsz et al.) in 1617, serving as illustrations to Joost van den Vondel’s (1587–1679) “Vorstelijke Warande der Dieren” (Princely Warren of Animals).

Dimensions:
• Sheet: 19.6 x 15.7 cm
• Plate mark: 9.6 x 11.5 cm
• Image borderline: 9.4 x 11.3 cm

Letterpress Dutch lettering:
• Above the plate mark: “57 WARANDE DER DIEREN./ 57. De Vlieghe en Mieren.”
• Below the plate mark: “SULke redenen zijnder … leven niet seker. CUSPINIANUS”

References:
• Hollstein (Dutch) 1–108 (FWH Hollstein, 1949, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca.1450–1700, vol. VII, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger, p. 100, cat. nos. 1–108)
• The British Museum describes an earlier edition (c. 1567):
“'The fly and the ant'; a group of ants at left are crawling into a tree; a fly flies down to them; in the background there are two men on horses; in the background there is a church …”
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0612-167
• Archive.org offers an online view of the 1682 edition:
https://archive.org/details/vorstelijckewara00vond/page/n127/mode/2up

Price & Shipping:
AU$264 (approximately US$174.59 / €149.68 / £130.89), including worldwide express shipping. Please note that import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this visually intriguing emblem print—hopefully other viewers will be more attuned to see the large fly depicted at the centre of the composition than I was!—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to provide a secure PayPal invoice for a seamless purchase.

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Aegidius Sadeler II, “Johann Georg Godelman”, c1615

Aegidius Sadeler II (aka Egidius Sadeler; Gillis Sadeler; Gillis Sadler; Ægedius Sadeler) (1570–c1629)

“Johann Georg Godelman” (aka “Iohan. Georg. Gődelman”), c1615 (1600–1629), after a lost drawing by Aegidius Sadeler II with four lines of Latin verse (in lower cartouche) by Johannes Nienborg (1573–1639), published in Prague.

Engraving with etching on laid paper trimmed with a thread margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 17 x 14.7 cm.

Inscribed on plate: (upper banderole) “In vita et morte es tu mea Christe salus.”; (centre oval frame) “IOHAN. GEORG. GŐDELMAN IC. COMES PALATINVS ET AVLÆ ELECT. SAXO: CONSILIARIVS.”; (within the oval frame to the left) “ÆTATIS XLII”; (lower left corner) “De Facie Faciem/ expressit Egidius/ Sadeler Pragæ.”; (lower cartouche)” Hæc Godelmanni viua est Doctoris imago,/ Quem pietas celebrem mens humilisq[ue] facit./ Ius dat cuiq[ue] suum: bene’ viuit: nec nocet ulli./ Illum SAXONICO cum DVCE CÆSAR amat.// Ioannes/ Niemberg P.L.”

State ii (of iii) with the addition of “Pragæ” after the engraver’s name but before state iii when the plate was cut to show only the oval of the portrait.

TIB 7201.300 S2 (Isabelle de Ramaix 1998, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Æidius Sadeler II,” vol. 72, Part 2 [Supplement], New York, Abaris Books, p. 119, cat. no. [7201].300 S2); Hollstein 1980 293 II (3); Nagler 1835–52 46; Le Blanc 106; Wurzbach 133.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Portrait of Johann Georg Gödelmann; bust-length, directed to right, glancing towards left; wearing ruff, fur coat, doublet and chains; in ornamental oval frame, surmounted by ribbon, flanked by pelican feeding young and roaring lion; below, cartouche, snake, and skull surrounded by three bent stalks of wheat. Engraving” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1877-0609-2031 [BM inv. 1877,0609.2031]).

See also the description offered by the Rijksmuseum: (Transl.) “Johann Georg Gödelmann at the age of 42, a German lawyer and author of tracts against witchcraft. In the corners of the portrait a pelican, a lion, a snake and a skull. The print has a Latin inscription on a banderole and a Latin inscription in a cartouche” (https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200247428).

Condition: a near faultless impression, trimmed with a thread margin around the image borderline and laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent/museum-quality condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this remarkably fine impression showing the professor of law, Johann Georg Godelman (1559–1611), surrounded by what I read as symbols of his attributes (viz. the virtue of atonement symbolised by the pelican pecking its breast to feed its young with its own blood; the virtues of majesty, strength, justice and courage symbolised by the roaring lion; recognition of transience of life and the ephemeral nature of life symbolised by the skull; eternal cyclic renewal symbolised by the knotted snake), for AU$478 (equivalent to approximately US$306.39, EUR 271, or GBP 230.42 at the time of listing) and includes Express Mail Service (EMS) postage and handling to any worldwide destination. Please note that any import duties or taxes levied by the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. Payment is requested in Australian dollars (AU$478).

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

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