DE WAEL, Jan Baptist. Contadini e animali italiani. Varie scene di genere. Tredici incisioni.Roma, 1647-16

Oblong 8vo. 128x200 mm. Amateur binding of the XIXth century, half calf and marbled boards, corners, polychrome endpapers. 13 etchings, copper block about 85x128 mm. Numbered 1-13. State II / IV, with Billy address.”. Slight uniform foxing, good condition.

An extremely rare collection of genre prints by the eminent Flemish engraver who worked extensively in Italy. The first table contains the dedication to the rich Flemish banker Gaspar Roomer, patron and collector active in Naples in the seventeenth century. In a pedestal decorated with garlands is written: "Illmo. ac Ornmo. DNO. / Gasparo de Roomer / bonarum Artium / Maecenati dignmo. / DDD / Joannes Babta. de / wael ”. At the foot, under the image: "With licenses of superiors. In Rome by Vincenzo Billij near the Clock of the Nova Church “Plate 14 is missing, which closes the series.Regnault-Delalande, Catalogue raisonné des estampes du cabinet de M. le Comte Rigal, 1817, n. 853; Cornelis de Vos to Aert van Waes, Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, Christiaan Schuckman, p. 267, cat.nr. 3; Hollstein Dutch, 3-15..