Icones Principum Virorum.

4 etchings and engravings, 24,5 x 15,5 cm (smallest), 24,5 x 18,5 (largest), laid paper with watermark, signed in plate at lower margin.

All in good condition with wide margins.

Four original prints from Van Dyck's series "Icones Principum Virorum". Mixed states. Of the fifteen plates now ascribed to Van Dyck himself, two are present in this collection, i.e. the portraits of Justus Suttermans (5th state of 5) and the portrait of Adam van Noort (6th state of 7). In addition, the portraits of Jan Wildens and Adrian Stalbent, both engr. by Paulus Pontius (7th and final state, with the address of Hendrickx burnished).
Ref. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 8.6; 12.5; 66.7; 70.7.
Joined: 1. Lommelin, Adriaen. After Van Dyck - Portrait of Adriaen Stevens. From "Icones Principum Vivorum" series. Engraving, 24,5 x 18,5 cm, laid paper, signed in plate at lower right corner "A. Lommelin sculp.". Only state. Ref. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 180.1.-- 2. Waumans, Coenraet. After Van Dyck - Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. Engraving, 25,7 x 20 cm, laid paper, signed in plate at lower margin "Conraet Waumans sculpsit". 2nd and final state. Ref. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 151.2.-- 3. Pontius, Paulus. After Van Dyck - Portrait of Abbé Cesare Alessandro Scaglia. Engraving, 24,5 x 18 cm, laid paper, signed in plate. 8th and final state. Ref. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 64.8.-- 4. Bolswert, Schelte Adamsz. After Van Dyck - Portrait of Justus Lipsius. From Icones Principum Vivorum series. Engraving, 25 x 17 cm, laid paper with partial watermark, signed in plate at lower left corner "Ant. van Dÿck pinxit / S.A. Bolswert sculp". 2nd state (of 6). Ref. New Hollstein 39.2.-- 5. Pontius, Paulus. After Erasmus Quellinus and Van Dyck - Portait of Anthony Van Dyck. Engraving, 32 x 22,1 cm, laid paper (only right part, left section with portrait of Rubens trimmed, lower text margin trimmed, traces of old mount on verso). Ref. Hollstein 123.2. (9 pcs)