Lot 164 , An album of Old Master etchings and engravings, containing works by Cornelis Bega (c.1620/32-1664), Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), Cornelius Dusart (1660-1704) and Jacques Callot (1592-1635)

An album of Old Master etchings and engravings, containing works by Cornelis Bega (c.1620/32-1664), Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), Cornelius Dusart (1660-1704) and Jacques Callot (1592-1635) the album containing 30 tipped-in or loose works, housed in a folio slipcase
£1,000-1,500

Bega
'Peasant and a young Innkeeper' (B33),
'Tavern Scene' (B35),
'Four peasants and an elderly Innkeeper' (B32),
and the following from the volume 'A Collection of Oringinal Etchings' (1816):
'Mother & child with peasant in a tavern' (B31),
'Man with one hand thrust into his doublet' (B10),
'Peasant girl smoking a pipe' (B11),
'Old woman holding a jug' (B12),
'Peasant smoking a pipe' (B13),
'Gathering at fireplace' (B23)

van Ostade
'Quack salver' (G43),
'Schoolmaster' (G17),
'Dance under the trellis' (G47),
'Anglers' (G26),
'Woman Spinning' (G31),
'Mother with Children' (x2 both copies),
'Bust of a laughing peasant' (G1),
'Bust of a peasant' (G2),
'Peasant in a pointed fur cap' (G3),
'Two gossips' (G40)

Dusart
'Drunken Couple' (copy in reverse)

Callot
'Les petites Miseries de la Guerre' (a set of six, lacking title page)

Sold for £900