Castiglione (Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664). Man with beard and moustache

Castiglione (Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664). Man with beard and moustache wearing a turban, from the series Large Heads in Oriental Headdress, etching on laid paper, trimmed just inside the plate mark, extreme upper left corner torn (without loss), sheet size 180 x 150 mm (7.1 x 5.9 ins), window-mounted, together with:
Young man sounding a trumpet, wearing a flat cap (from the series Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress), etching on thin laid paper, trimmed just inside the plate mark, sheet size 102 x 77 mm (4 1/8 x 3 ins), laid down on old card, with ink inscription to verso 'Les petites tetes d'hommes coiffées à l'Orientale, BXX1, J.Kay, Lond 1826', with card mount, plus:
Desplaces (Louis, 1682-1739). To The Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, circa 1741, etching by Desplaces, from a drawing by D.M. Fratta after Pittoni and Baleriani, depicting an allegorical tomb of Isaac Newton, with figures engaged in astronomical calculations, and observing a beam of light refracted into a mirror, trimmed to plate mark, 64 x 40 cm (25 1/4 x 15 3/4 ins), some marks and marginal creases, with short closed tear towards head of left margin, without loss, and three others: Hans Burgkmair, The Triumph of Maximilian I, 1516-18, woodcut on laid paper, from the series of 236 plates, watermark of a spread eagle within a circle (probably later 16th century), with old inscription in brown ink to upper right giving the title of the work, sheet size 382 x 367 mm (15 x 141/2 ins), and Jakob Schmutzer (1733-1811), portrait of Wenzel Anton Count Kaunitz, 1786, etching and engraving on laid paper, after Johann Baptist Hagenauer, trimmed to plate margins, and with some light overall toning, a few marks and margins reinforced with archival tape to verso, 45.5 x 44.5 cm (18 x 171/2 ins)

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Bartsch 51; Bellini (1982), 44 & 51 for the first two works