Hondius, Willem (1597-1658) after Anthonis van Dyck (1599-1641): Guilielmus Hondius calcographus Hagae Comitis. (Portrait of Willem Hondius.)
 
Engraving. State 6/6, the states differing in the lettering below the image. Signed ”Guil. Hondius sculp. / Ant. van Dyck pinxit”. 24,4 x 16,8 cms (plate), 43,5  x 28,5 cms (sheet). Printed on thin laid paper without watermark. A small printing flaw near bottom left corner of image. Very fine.
 
Hondius’ engraving of his own portrait for Van Dyck’s Iconography, after an original by the latter.
 
Literature: Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx: L'iconographie d'Antoine Van Dyck. Catalogue Raisonne (1991) no. 29. The copper-plates for the Iconography are kept in the Chalcographie, Musée du Louvre, since 1851. The present portrait is inv. no. 2335.