Good job, Pierre! Group of 9 school-prize prints.

Cornelis Galle the Younger / Cornelis de Boudt / Franz Joseph Gleich / [Petrus Mattheus Le Grand]. [Group of 9 school-prize prints]. Antwerp & Augsburg: Cornelius de Boudt & Franz Joseph Gleich, plates early 18th century and c. 1770s. [Each approximately 10.0 x 7.0 cm], [9] engravings on laid paper, three of which are decorated with contemporary hand color, manuscript annotations on versos. Well preserved.
 
 
Group of 9 devotional engravings which have manuscript annotations on their versos indicating that between 1806 and 1809 they were awarded as merit prizes to a certain Petrus Mattheus Le Grand, who was a young seminarian at the Bisschoppelijk Seminarie Gent. It is unusual to find preserved a group of prints used in this way, and it is a fine reminder of the flexible function of devotional prints.
 
Le Grand variously placed first, second, or third in history, Latin, “doctrina sacra,” catechism, and in courses that seem to have been based on specific texts on the Passion (“van de istorie van het lijden onzen Heere” and “van de istorie van het het bitter lijden van onzen Heere Jesus”) and on sacred history (“istorie van fleuri,” perhaps a text by Claude Fleury [1640-1723]). These annotations were penned by various teachers.
 
Six of the prints are from a series published in Antwerp by Cornelius de Boudt (1660-1735) after Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615-78) (Good Samaritan; Sacrifice of Issac, the Virgin as a Closed Garden, St. Jerome, St. Peter, the Trinity). The remaining three prints—decorated in contemporary hand-color—were issued in Augsburg by Franz Joseph Gleich (fl. 1770-80) (St. Dominic, the Circumcision, St. Sebastian). It strikes me as unusual that any Augsburg prints were circulating in Ghent, so robust was the devotional-print industry of nearby Antwerp.