Lot 16

Václav Hollar (1607 - 1677) A GROUP OF FOUR PRINTS

A VIEW OF WINDSOR CASTLE – etching, 98 x 174 / paper (93 x 171 / plate). Marked on lower left: Hollar fecit 1644, Hollstein 453/I ?. Condition: Paper narrowly cropped, mounted, spots.
THREE LEOPARDS AND TWO BOYS (based on Peter Paul Rubens)- Print from a series of ten prints “hounds, hunting equipment and game”, 1646, etching, 142 x 205 mm, paper (138 x 205 / plate) mm. Marked on lower left: P.P.Rubens pinxit, lower center: W. Hollar fecit. Print from a later publication (Holl. reports a total of 4), Hollstein 892. Condition: Pale print from a worn plate, restored fissure.
TITLE PAGE OF A SERIES – “Muscarum scarabeorum......ex Collectione Arundelian a Wenceslao Hollar aqua forti aeri insculptae, Antverpiae Anno 1646”, etching, 80 x 120 / paper, cropped (86 x 119 / plate). Marked lower center: Hollar fecit 1646, lower right: F. de Wit exc., Hollstein 913/ II.
PRINT FROM A SERIES – “Muscarum scarabeorum” – reverse copy. Six insects. Etching, 82 x 118 / paper, cropped, (Holl. does not report dimensions for copy plate, which is likely identical to the original plate, 81 x 118). Hollstein 914, reverse copy b (?), Holl. reports numbering, not visible here.