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Therefore, apart from some illustrations produced by ireland himself (signed “si”), apostool made most of the illustrations in the bookpartly because of his preference for aquatint, ireland appealed to the amsterdam painter cornelis apostool () who was known as a master of aquatintincidentally, apostool later in his career also worked as a diplomat and was eventually appointed as the first director of what would eventually become the amsterdam rijksmuseum\tentrance to the hague from delft 10furthermore, these images are included in the book (see photos): 1\tentrance to delft from rotterdam 8hope's villa, near haarlem 17\tryswick, near the hague 9i” in pencil and there is a library stamp (see photos)on verso title page it says “j\thalf-way house, between leyden and haerlem 15\tthe house where wouvermans resided, on the bakenessegragt, haarlem 18each image comes with a protective sheet of paperthe endpapers show the ex-libris of “estcourt library” and the ex-libris of “wican free public library” (see photos)the spine has been professionally replaced and it has a new letter piecethere are age spots throughout the book (see photos), but the bookblock is otherwise clean and firmly bound\tthe briel, across the maes 4\tdordrecht or dort 7(?)” and in pencil it the year\thouse in the wood, near the hague 12\thouse where peter the great resided at saardam, in north holland 23\tbergen op zoom read moresamuel ireland initially wanted to etch each image himself but eventually abandoned this idea for fear that he might not be good enough, but also because he now preferred aquatintsin this way, it is possible to create more even surfaces instead of having to mark them all with linesthere is a sign with a swan and a smoking man sitting at a tablecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available\tentrance to the harbour at helvoet sluys 3are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe logo of the wican free public library has been inconspicuously blind-stamped to several pages in the book (see photos)\tthe canal, called de oude rhyn, leyden 14\tde zwaan-ferry, on the maes, near gorcum 26\thaerlem from amsterdam road 16first volume of the first edition of the beautiful report of a journey through holland, with beautiful aquatint images of dutch cities and landscapes a picturesque tour through holland, brabant and part of france made in the autumn of illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings made on the spot by samuel ireland, “ipse oculis perlustravit” liv\tview from the entrance to harwich 2\twater-gate, utrecht, and the dom tower 24the preface describes that the mapping of the coastal landscape was the primary purpose of the journey to the low countriesinstead of using a needle to apply lines in a varnish layer on an etching plate, a resin layer is used in aquatintsegerton, whitehall - cm - (xvi) 213 (exclthe report of this journey was first published in in two volumes, of which this is the first volumethis is a variant of traditional etchingimages) condition: goodthe background shows a busy harbour and a lighthouse\tentrance to leyden 13london: may 1st printed for t\tamsterdam and bridge across the amstel 19\tstatue of erasmus, and house in which he was born 6\tvillage of broek in north holland 21\tscheveningen 11\tthe canal called de heere gragt, amsterdam 20\tcrossing the maes from gorcum 27\trotterdam from kattendregt-ferry across the maes 5\tferry-house at viannen, crossing the rhine, between utrecht and gorcum 25\tdresses of the north hollanders 22the title page - which is cut a bit short at the top - of this first volume shows an image of a couple in front of an innsamuel ireland () was an english engraver and writerplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe first free leaf says in old handwriting “cat bought december h
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