A Blue and White tile with a Dutch Merchant Ship

Obverse: NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE SPOORWEGMAATSCHAPPIJ, locomotive seen from the front, harvest goddess in front Reverse: 50 / JARIG BESTAAN / 1863- / -1913, Indian macara motive, styli...

German school, unsigned but attributed to Lorenz Strauch, dated 1612. Oil on copper, ca. 10.5 x 13.0 cm. Including frame: 17.0 x 19.5 cm Portrait three-quarter facing, dressed in...

The loop attached to an oval fitting with radiant decoration. The cameo made of agate, showing the profile of a female bust with hair pinned up. The portrait in the style of Faustina...

Framed early 18th century trompe l’oeil of silver medal celebrating Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’s fourth term as mayor of Amsterdam Pen and black ink with grey and yellow-brown wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines. Signed at the lower right of the fictive sheet of paper: Antonina houbraken. Inscribed, below medallion: Dr Nicolaas Tulp. Ao1672. / oudste Raad.Burgermeester van Amsterdam By Antonina Houbraken Paper watermarked with a fleur de lis 208 x 297 mm Bears stamp, verso, indicating the drawing was at one point a gift from Dr. B.W.Th. Nuyens (1866-1945), a medical doctor in Amsterdam, known, among many other things, for his efforts to fight tuberculosis and his promotion of post-natal care. Antonina Houbraken (1686 Dordrecht – 1736 Amsterdam) was a draughtswoman who is known for her many topographical drawings of Dutch sites. She also drew landscapes and is recorded as a skilled portraitist. Houbraken was the daughter of painter and writer Arnold Houbraken and sister of the printmaker Jacob Houbraken. It is assumed she learned to draw in her father’s workshop. In 1723 she married Jacobus Stellingwerff, a draughtsman who also made topographical drawings for the albums of Andries Schoemaker, a numismatist and medal specialist and collector of topographical prints and drawings. Schoemaker was also a contributor to the famous standard work on Dutch medals...