Lot 001: A Comprehensive Victorian Collector's Folio of Engravings after the Old Masters

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A COMPREHENSIVE VICTORIAN COLLECTOR’S FOLIO OF ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE OLD MASTERS Mid-to-Late 19th Century Compilation DESCRIPTION A substantial and meticulously curated 19th-century collector’s album, comprising 83 tipped-in reproductive engravings after masterpieces of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods. The collection demonstrates a sophisticated 19th-century antiquarian taste, heavily leaning toward the Italian Renaissance (Raphael, Titian, Correggio), the Roman Baroque (Carracci, Reni, Guercino), and the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish landscape and historical painting (Rubens, Rembrandt, Cuyp). Notably, the folio includes a complete sequence of William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode (Plates 1–6) and a sweeping 11-plate suite of classical landscapes and seaports after Claude Lorrain, alongside evocative dramatic landscapes by Gaspar Poussin. BINDING Large quarto/folio. Half-bound in dark green morocco over matching cloth boards. The spine is divided into six compartments by five raised bands, with five of the compartments featuring rich, gilt-tooled floral centerpieces and ornate corner volutes. Gilt ruling to the board edges. The interior is finished with vibrant Spanish combed marbled endpapers in shades of blue, yellow, and green. COMPLETE WORKS (listed alphabetically) Aelbert Cuyp (Style of): 'Pastoral Landscape with Horseman and Cattle' Ca. 1650s Agostino Carracci: 'St. Jerome in the Wilderness' Ca. 1600 Andrea del Sarto: 'The Holy Family' Ca. 1528 Annibale Carracci: 'St. John the Baptist Preaching' Ca. 1590 Annibale Carracci: 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt' Ca. 1600 Annibale Carracci: 'Domine, Quo Vadis? (Christ Appearing to St. Peter)' Ca. 1601 Anthony van Dyck: 'Portrait of Cornelius van der Geest' Ca. 1620 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: 'The Peasant Boy' Ca. 1655 Benjamin West: 'Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple' Ca. 1801 Bernardino Luini (formerly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci): 'Christ and the Pharisees (Christ Among the Doctors)' Ca. 1515 Canaletto: 'The Stonemason's Yard' Ca. 1725 Claude Lorrain: 'Landscape with Tobias and the Angel' Ca. 1639 Claude Lorrain: 'Classical Landscape with Figures' Ca. 1640 Claude Lorrain: 'Classical Landscape with Ruins' Ca. 1645 Claude Lorrain: 'Pastoral Landscape with Sheep' Ca. 1645 Claude Lorrain: 'Landscape with Figures in a Boat' Ca. 1640 Claude Lorrain: 'Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba' Ca. 1648 Claude Lorrain: 'Seaport with the Embarkation of St. Ursula' Ca. 1641 Claude Lorrain: 'Seaport at Sunset' Ca. 1639 Claude Lorrain: 'Classical Landscape with Figures' Ca. 1640s Claude Lorrain: 'Pastoral Landscape with Cattle and Figures' Ca. 1640s Claude Lorrain (Style of): 'Classical Landscape with Riders and Castle' Ca. 1640s Claude Lorrain (Style of): 'Wooded Landscape with Cattle Watering' Ca. 1640s Correggio: 'Ecce Homo' Ca. 1526 Correggio: 'The Agony in the Garden' Ca. 1524 Correggio: 'Madonna and Child' Ca. 1520 Domenichino: 'The Stoning of St. Stephen' Ca. 1610 Eustache Le Sueur: 'Roman Interior Scene' Ca. 1645 Eustache Le Sueur: 'Biblical Interior Scene' Ca. 1645 Federico Barocci: 'The Holy Family with St. John' Ca. 1590 Gaspar Poussin: 'Landscape with a Castle' Ca. 1650 Gaspar Poussin: 'Landscape with Travelers' Ca. 1650 Gaspar Poussin: 'Stormy Landscape with Waterfall' Ca. 1655 Gaspar Poussin: 'Landscape with Castle and River' Ca. 1650 Gaspar Poussin (Dughet): 'Rugged Landscape with Figures' Ca. 1650s Giorgione / Titian: 'The Concert' Ca. 1510 Giulio Romano: 'Papal Procession' Ca. 1520 Guercino: 'St. Jerome and the Angel' Ca. 1640 Guercino: 'Dead Christ Mourned by Two Angels' Ca. 1617 Guido Reni: 'St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness' Ca. 1625 Guido Reni: 'St. Jerome with the Crucifix' Ca. 1630s John Hoppner (After): 'Portrait of William Pitt the Younger' Ca. 1804–1805 John Singleton Copley: 'The Death of the Earl of Chatham' Ca. 1779–1781 Luca della Robbia (After): 'Cantoria (Singing Angels)' Ca. 1431–1438 Michelangelo (After): 'The Abduction of Ganymede' Ca. 1532 Nicolas Poussin: 'Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion' Ca. 1648 Nicolas Poussin: 'Bacchanalian Revel before a Herm' Ca. 1632–1633 Nicolas Poussin: 'Bacchanalian Scene with Nymphs' Ca. 1630 Nicolas Poussin: 'The Institution of the Eucharist' Ca. 1640 Nicolas Poussin: 'Cephalus and Aurora' Ca. 1630 Nicolas Poussin: 'Nymphs Adorning a Statue (Mythological Scene)' Ca. 1630s Nicolas Poussin (School of): 'Bacchanalian Scene with Nymphs and Satyrs' Ca. 1630s Nicolas Poussin (School of): 'Classical Scene with Hero and Armor' Ca. 1640s Parmigianino: 'The Vision of St. Jerome' Ca. 1526–1527 Paul Veronese: 'The Rape of Europa' Ca. 1580 Peter Paul Rubens: 'A Bacchanalian Revel' Ca. 1615 Peter Paul Rubens: 'St. Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius' Ca. 1615 Peter Paul Rubens: 'The Holy Family with St. Anne' Ca. 1630 Peter Paul Rubens: 'A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning' Ca. 1636 Peter Paul Rubens: 'The Four Philosophers' Ca. 1611 Raphael: 'Portrait of a Saint (Detail…

Condition Report

Binding: Displays wear commensurate with age and handling. Scuffing and rubbing to the leather extremities, particularly at the joints, head, and tail of the spine. The cloth boards show scattered minor staining and wear. The corners are bumped. The hinges remain sound and the binding is secure, although slightly loose. Interior/Plates: The engravings have been uniformly trimmed to the image or plate mark and tipped directly onto heavy Victorian album leaves. The impressions range from good to excellent. Occasional light to moderate foxing, age-toning, and minor offsetting are present across the album leaves, typical of 19th-century paper stock, though the primary image areas remain largely clean and highly legible.

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