Botany
€ 350
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Very good, some wear. Please review the images for further condition details.
Antique portrait titled 'Carolina, Prinsesse van Oranje (..)'. Engraving of Carolina, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Nassau-Weilburg. Half length with curled hair with jewelled clasp, and low gown edged in frills, with left hand holding a closed fan and with right hand raised to breast, holding a flower. Within an oval border with an allegorical scene on cartouche below. From a series of 21 portraits of Dutch stadholders engraved by Jacob Houbraken and Pieter Tanjé.
Artists and Engravers: Jakob Houbraken (1698-1780) was a very productive Dutch 18th. Century engraver, who produced a great number of book-illustrations in the taste of the time. He also engraved many portraits and some prints after contemporary masters.
Condition: Very good, some wear. Please study image carefully.
Date: 1754
Overall size: 34 x 50 cm.
Image size: 21.5 x 34 cm.
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