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A magnificent collection of contemporary portraits of the most important artists from the Netherlands working in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

HONDIUS, Henricus (& Simon FRISIUS, Andries STOCK, and Robert de BAUDOUS).
Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies. Pars I.

With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted).

With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted).

With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted).

With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted).



The Hague, Henricus Hondius, (ca. 1610). Folio. Contemporary half calf. With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted).

A selection of 41 portraits (and title, and the two allegorical plates) from the first edition of Hendrick Hondius's collection of portraits of Dutch artists. The complete collection, which contained 69 portraits, appeared shortly after 1610, as the portrait of De Geyn is dated 1610. A second edition was published in 1618 by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam, with the title Theatrum honoris in quo nostri Apelles ... imagines.
None of the bound copies, however, necessarily contain the same number of portraits, which were also for sale separately.
The series is divided in three parts: part 1 contains 22 copies after Domenicus Lampsonius' series of portraits of artist working before ca. 1500; part 2 26 portraits of artists active in the sixteenth century, and part 3 20 portraits of contemporary artists.
This selection contains after (1) the engraved title (H 80), (2) the plate with the three putti with banderols (228x152mm; H 81), (3) a leaf with the mounted extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself with a short biography in French underneath, (4) a leaf with the printed text of the dedicatory poem by Hendrick Hondius "Picturae amatoribus, admiratoribusque", the portraits of:

- Hubert Goltzius by Simon Frisius (H VII, 36)
- Gillis Coninxloo by Andries Stock
- Dirck Barendsz. by Hondius (H 107)
- Aegidius Mostaert by Frisius (H VII, 44)
- Jodocus de Momper by Frisius (H VII, 67)
- Joachim Bueckelaer by Frisius (H VII, 29)
- Maarten de Vos by Frisius (H VII, 56)
- Pieter Aertsen by Hondius (H 105)
- Hendrik van Cleve by Frisius (H VII, 38)
- Frans Pourbus by Hondius (H 106)
- Cornelis Ketel by Hondius (H 111)
- Abraham Bloemaert by Frisius (H VII, 61)
- Karel van Mander by Andries Stock
- Hans Bol by Andries Stock
- Johannes de Water by Andries Stock
- Floris van Dijck by Hondius (H 114)
- Frans Badens by Robert de Baudous
- Crispijn van den Broeck by Hondius (H 108)
- Arnold Mytens by Hondius (H 109)
- Bartholomaeus Spranger by Hondius (H 112)
- Jodocus van Wighe by Frisius (H VII, 43)
- Albert Dürer by Frisius (H VII, 26) with "Pars II" engraved in the window.
- Hans Holbein by Frisius (H VII, 28)
- Jacob Brinck by Frisius (H VII, 31)
- Martinus Heemskerck by Frisius (H VII, 33)
- Antonius Mor by Frisius (H VII, 37)
- Cornelis Engelbrechtsz by Hondius (H 90)
- Christian van Queborne by Frisius (H VII 48)
- Cornelis Visscher by Robert de Baudous
- Georg Hoefnagel by Frisius (H VII, 47)
- Gerrit Pietersz. (Sweeling) by Frisius (H VII, 70)
- Michael Mierevelt by Frisius (H VII, 58)
- Anthonie van Blockland by Frisius (H VII, 34)
- Hendrik Vroom by Frisius (H VII, 57)
- Adam Elsheimer by Frisius (H VII, 69)
- Paulus Bril by Frisius (H VII, 60)
- Otho Venius by Frisius (H VII, 59)
- Cornelis Corn.zn. van Haarlem by Robert de Baudous
- Michiel Coxie by Frisius (signed) (H VII, 46 with fig.)
- Hendrick Goltzius by Robert de Baudous
- Jacques de Gheyn by Andries Stock
and the allegorical plate of Fame after Death (215x137mm),"with in the lower margin the motto "Post Funera, Vita", by Hondius (H 115)

There is only one portrait from the first part: that of Cornelis Engelbrechtsz by Hondius; from the second part there are 23 out of 26, and in the third part 17 out of 20 portraits. The compiler of this collection, omitting almost completely the copied portraits of the 'medieval masters', has bound in the portraits of the second and third parts (except for three of the second and three of the third part), to get an almost complete collection of the recent and contemporary Dutch artists.
In total there are 10 portraits by the famous engraver, etcher and publisher Hendrick Hondius (1573-1650), 23 by Simon Wynouts Frisius (ca. 1580-1629), 5 by the pupil of Jacques de Geyn II, Andries Stock (ca. 1580-1648) and 4 by Robert de Baudous (ca. 1574-ca. 1660), although many of the portraits, which are assigned to Frisius, Stock and De Baudous by Hollstein, are actually signed by Hondius. 

Good copy.- (Some marginal staining, top corner of several lvs. damaged, spine rubbed).
The new Hollstein, Hendrick Hondius, 80-115 (p. 90-105); Hollstein VII, Frisius, p. 32; Von Szwykowski 1856, p. 1; Kramm III, p. 718; Van Someren 1, 211a; Burchard 15.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Portraits 

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