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ALLARD, Carel (1648-1709) after Egbert Van HEEMSKERK (1645-1704)

[Quakers Meeting] Quaakers Vergadering. Fronti Nulla Fides. The Quakers Meeting.

Amsterdam: Published by Carel Allard, circa 1675. Engraving. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed within the plate mark on all sides. Light crease through center where it has been folded. Skillfully repaired tear on bottom margin. Bottom right corner has been reattached. A number of tiny tear on upper edge of sheet. Image size: 14 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 20 inches.

This fascinating, satirical print of a Quakers' meeting was executed by Carel Allard after the celebrated Dutch genre painter Egbert van Heemskerk, the younger.

The Heemskerk family of painters, originally from Haarlem, settled in London in the 1670s where they garnered a reputation for fine genre scenes in the Dutch manner. Egbert was the pupil of Pieter Grebbers for a short period of time but he was influenced more by his father, whose style and subject matter he imitated in his paintings. Heemskert continued the Dutch tradition of peasant paintings but he had a particular penchant for humorous social scenes, such as this satirical representation of a Quaker meeting house. The cause for mirth here would not be as apparent to modern audiences as it was in the 17th century when a woman preaching seemed to many people a perfect absurdity. The dog in the lower right peeing on a stern female listener's skirt emphasizes the artist's point of view. The caption poem is given in Dutch and English.

The Society of Friends originated in England under George Fox and spread to the Netherlands during the mid 17th century, a period during which Amsterdam gained its lasting reputation for religious tolerance.

In this bold image, Heemskert's painting, which is now housed in the Quaker Collection at the Haverford College Library, is expertly translated into print by the exceptional engraver Carel Allard. Today Allard is better known as a map engraver and publisher than a printmaker, but his technical skill and bold style is wonderfully exemplified in this striking image. The Allard family ran an active publishing business in Amsterdam during the latter half of the seventeenth century. Most of their publications consisted of large atlases of maps and town plans by Blaeu, Jansson, and Visscher, but they occasionally issued separately published prints such as this image, which testifies to Carel's skill as an engraver.

Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, et Graveurs.

#14150$2,250.00
 
 
ALLARD, Carel (1648-1709)

[Asia] Exactissima Asiæ Delineatio, in Præcipuas Regiones, Cæterasq[ue] Partes divisa...

Amsterdam: Allard, c. 1703. Engraved with full period colour. Cartouche after Phillip Tideman (1657-1702). Image size (including text): 19 5/8 x 23 1/8 inches. Sheet size: 21 x 25 inches.

This masterful map of Asia represented a vast amount of recently gleaned geographical knowledge. The difference between the European conception of Asia in 1600 and that of 1700 is remarkable. As one would expect, the first improvements were coastal. The configurations of Japan, China, the East Indies and Indochina had vastly improved, and in some cases (China for example) accurate knowledge of the interior was being pieced together. In the case of China, this geographical understanding derived primarily from existing Chinese maps to which the Jesuits were given access.

The most recent new Asiatic knowledge came from Nicolas Witsen, prominent politician, acquaintance of Peter the Great, and maker of a map of Siberia, incorporated here. Witsen is credited in the map.

The topography of mountain ranges and forests and the lettering are beautifully engraved, and the whole continent is depicted with great clarity, as is characteristic of all Allard's maps.

The cartouche, drawn by Philip Tideman and again, beautifully engraved, shows an Asian potentate before whom Asian artworks, products, exotic animals and flowers are displayed.

Koeman, Al. 10

#20694$2,750.00
 
 
ALLARD, Carel (1648-1709)

Straat Davis en Hudson

Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, c. 1690. Engraved by Aldert Meyer . Plate mark: 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches.

Costumes and trades of the Arctic Circle from Carel Allard's wonderful study of exotic costume and faraway places

This 17th century depiction of an Inuit couple, he with fishes and she with an arctic fox, comes from Carel Allard's superb Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus... which portrayed the styles of clothing of various people around the world and some of their towns and cities.

The Davis Srait lies between Baffin Island and Greenland. There is another strait, Hudson Strait, between Baffin Island and the Canadian mainland.

#24897$450.00
 
 
ALLARD, Carel (1648-1709)

[The World and Continents - Five Maps]

Amsterdam: [circa 1705]. Copper-engraved maps, with original outline colour, in very good condition. Sheet size: 21 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches.

A superb set of maps the World and Continents by the eminent Dutch cartographer

Allard's World map, Planisphærium Terrestre, sive Terrarum Orbis, represents a dramatic departure from the classical Dutch tradition and prefigures and influences the great age of Enlightenment cartography that flourished in Germany and the Netherlands. In the place of the conventional allegorical personifications, he surrounds his double hemispheres with twelve additional spheres, each depicting an aspect of the Earth purely as an object of scientific inquiry.

Recentissima Novi Orbis Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula is Allard's very handsome map of North and South America. Benefiting from late 17th century French maps of the two continents, it shows all five Great Lakes and a well-delineated Mississippi River. An inset in the lower-left corner depicts what was then known of New Zealand. The cartouche is especially attractive, inhabited by exotic animals and scenes relating to mankind's eternal search for gold.

Accuratissima Europae Tabula, Multis locis correcta, et Nuperimè edita is Allard's highly detailed map of Europe.

The map of Africa, Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Tabula, is beautifully coloured and features a black cherub riding a lion, while a regal woman, personifying Africa, beholds the scene.

Exactissima Asiae Delineatio is partially based on the large-scale maps of northeastern Europe prepared by D. Nicolai Witsen (1641-1717), the Burgomaster of Amsterdam. It is thought that he was privy to maps of Siberia, which were the result of surveys commissioned by Peter the Great.

Koeman, Atlantes Neelandici, Al.1, Al.4, Al.10, Al.30, & Al.73

#6783$29,000.00
 
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