Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600
THE BATTEL AT NEVPORT, A.D. 1600
c.1657Etching and engraving; printed on paper; formerly guarded into a volume | 22.3 x 30.0 cm (image) | RCIN 721104
A low oblique view of the Battle of Nieuwpoort, fought on 2 July 1600 between the Dutch, commanded by Maurice of Nassau, and the Spanish Habsburg army, commanded by Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (13 November 1559-13 July 1621), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, and Francisco de Mendoza, Admiral of Aragón (bap.21 August 1550-1 March 1623), Commander-in-Chief of the Habsburg army of Flanders, resulting in a Dutch victory. The Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648).
Originally published in, and probably removed from: Francis Vere, The Commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere, Cambridge: Printed by John Field for William Dillingham 1657.
See the notes to RCINs 721099 and 721102.
? William Dillingham : Cambridge (publisher)
John Field (active 1652-69) (printer)
Watermark: Cross in a double circle, the letters N C / S L C below
Condition: one fold line; remains of old guard on verso along fold; gilt edges left and right (probably along the leading edges from the volume in which it was bound)
21.6 x 30.0 cm (neatline)
22.3 x 30.0 cm (image)
24.6 x 32.5 cm (platemark)
28.9 x 38.3 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
THE BATTEL AT NEVPORT, A.D. 1600 [in panel, across top of print]
Additional text:
[in the title panel, top right:] page 80.
Annotations:
George III heading: Nieuport 2 July 1600.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil, partly erased:] I/[?]7; [right, red pencil:] 1/93; [top right, black pencil, erased:] Nieuport; [top right, black pencil, erased:] 1600.
George III catalogue entry:
Nieuport The Battel at Neuport 1600.
Subject(s)
Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium (51°07'48"N 02°45'04"E)
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