Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CALLOT, JACQUES.) Image des Saints [spine title]. Bound volume containing 368 etched roundels on 185 leaves depicting scenes from the lives of saints and martyrs in calendar order with captions in Dutch, printed mostly 2 per leaf on recto only, on paper watermarked with London arms and royal cipher GR. Folio, 289x182 mm, 19th-century red levant elegantly gilt by S. David with border of interlacing double-fillet strapwork on covers, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in one with concentric fillets in the rest, dark green morocco doublures, red silk endleaves; contents clean; morocco-edged board slipcase. Netherlands, mid-18th century

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Later Dutch imitation of Callot's hagiographical series Les Images de tous les Saincts et Saintes de l'Année suivant le Martyrologie Romain. Cf. Lieure VII, 40-57, and, for the paper, Churchill 242.