Art, Architecture & Photography / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Cort verhael ende afbeeldinghe der justitie, geschiet den 5. mey 1623. in 'sGravenhaghe.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623. Engraved illustration (26.5 x 14.5 cm), giving four circular portraits and 10 separate scenes, flanked by a letterpress description in Dutch. Full description

VISSCHER II, Claes Jansz. Treves endt.
[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher II, [1621]. Oblong 1mo (full-sheet) broadside (26.5 x 36.5 cm). With an etched plate (17 x 36 cm), with 20 verses (6 lines each) printed letterpress below in 5 columns. Divided into two parts (upper part with pictorial image 17.5 x 36.5 cm; lower part with text 9 x 36.5 cm) and mounted on a paperboard support. [1] leaf. Full description

VISSER, Willem Abrahams. [Drawing book by an apprentice silversmith].
Emden, 1755-1759. 4to. Drawings on paper, some in red chalk and others in black ink with washes, some sketches of e.g. flowers in pencil on the verso of the leaves. Contemporary vellum, leather ties. 92 ll. Full description

[VLIEGER, Simon de]. [Hilly and wooded landscape with a bridge over a stream in the foreground].
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1620/40]. 43 x 56 cm. Landscape drawing in black chalk(?) and white chalk on paper. Under glass in a black and gold wooden frame. Full description

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. [Album von Wiesbaden].
Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [10] engraved views. Full description

WALDORP, Jan Gerard. [Design for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's Proeve over de opvoeding].
[Amsterdam, 1779]. Drawing in black ink with grey watercolour washes (14 x 9 cm) on laid paper, tipped onto a larger leaf (30 x 21.5 cm). Full description

[WATERCOLOUR PAINTING]. [GIUDICE, Luigi del (attributed)]. [Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].
[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm). Full description

WESTENBERG, George Pieter. Woody landscap with a road and huts.
[Haarlem?, after 1838]. 18 x 23,5 cm. Pen and brown ink and black wash, mounted on cardboard. Signed "G.P. Westenberg. f" in the lower left. Full description

[WHALING]. Seylen in 't ys, en soeken na de walvis. | La navigation dans la glace, et chercher du baleine.| Il veleggiare nel ghiaccio, & cercare del baleno. | Das Seeglen ins Eiß, und suchen des Wallfisches.
Augsburg, Georg Balthasar Probst, [ca. 1745]. Etched print (plate size: 31 x 42 cm) on watermarked laid paper (32 x 45 cm). Full description

[WHALING - WATERCOLOUR]. [A Dutch whaling scene].
[ca. 1801?]. Illustration 29 x 39 cm; frame 44 x 53 cm. Pen, ink and watercolour whaling scene with a coloured border, on laid paper, mounted on paperboard. Framed. Full description