Lot 340
  • 340

Steevens, Peter

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Menses XII Anni Solaris. Prague: Sadeler, 1607
  • paper, ink, leather
Three titles bound in one, oblong folio (14 x 11 3/4  in.; 353 x 296 mm). Engraved title, 12 engraved plates; occasional marginal staining and worm holes, not affecting images. Sammelband volume bound in contemporary vellum; some staining, worming, book block loose in cover. 

[with]: BRILL PAULUS AND PETER STEEVENS. 9 landscape plates (various image sizes) engraved by Sadeler, Aegidius, and Rafael; 1 marginal tear not affecting image. — VAN SCHILLE, HANS. Form und weis zu bauwen, Zimmern, machen und auff zu richten, mit Blochheusern, Graben und wallen und auch sonsten zu stercken allerley wehrliche vestung Schlosser Burgen und Stedt... Antwerp: Gerard de Jode, 1850. Vertical folio. 13 plates of designs for fortifications.

Catalogue Note

Steevens, one of Rudolf's court painters, was a major influence on the development of Netherlandish landscape art, for which influence Sadeler's engravings carry considerable weight. The plates present in this volume offer examples of some of the first "pure" landscape in European art, explorations which proved of momentous importance in the course of the 17th century.