Trophies of War, title page
Rome: M. Scheap, 1658. Engraving on cream laid paper, 4 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (117 x 125 mm); sheet 5 x 6 1/8 inches (128 x 151 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with paper tape remnants at the top corners on the verso, as well as on the right sheet edge on the verso. Adhesive residue at the top-center sheet, on the verso. There is one spot of light brown discoloration in the top center sheet on the verso which does not present on the recto. These condition points are unobtrusive and consistent with age. On the recto someone has intentionally obscured portions of the text brown ink, this appears to be a period application. With the Saint John Dent collector's stamp (Lugt 2373) in red ink in the lower left sheet on the verso, along with accompanying notations in pencil indicating that this rare, early impression is before the addition of the M. Scheap publishers information in the area below the cartouche.
A note on the provenance:
The print collection assembled by this connoisseur was one of the most important of its time. Its origins seem to date back to the time of the Masterman Sykes sale (1824); the collector is believed to have made acquisitions there, as well as at the Buckingham (1834), Hawkins (1850), and Wellesley (circa 1860) sales. He also benefited from the dispersal of the Beckford collection (circa 1840), bought from Woodburn, and, among the many other renowned collections that the catalogue of his sale cites as direct or indirect sources of his best prints, one finds all the great names of the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries: Mariette, Pond, Astley, Ottley, Durand, T. Wilson, Esdaile, von Fries, Durazzo, Aylesford, Debois, Paignon-Dijonval, Bammeville, Marshall, to name only the best known. The collector lived in Bryanston Square, London. His library was sold at Sotheby's on April 5, 1884.
— Fritz Lugt.
Item number: 1629
Price: $500.00
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