Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Gennep, 1641 (Gennep, Limburg, Netherlands) 51°41ʹ54ʺN 05°58ʹ25ʺE
1641 or laterEtching and engraving; printed from four copperplates on four sheets of paper, joined; mounted on paper (mount cropped, remains of type B mount) | 20.1 x 117.6 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 723004
A panoramic view of the defeated Spanish garrison, marching out of Gennep on 29 July 1641 towards Venlo with the full honours of war. Eighty Years War (1568-1648).
The attribution to Pieter Nolpe is made by the Rijksmuseum (RP-P-OB-81.503E).
The Governor of Gennep, the Irish Colonel Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585-1655), can be seen in the right hand plate, bending the knee in surrender to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. Preston was later accused of surrendering unnecessarily, being well equipped with both men and supplies (González de Lé>on, p.276). The fortress of Gennep can be seen in the distance to the right behind Preston.
Pieter Nolpe (1613/4-c. 1652/3) (printmaker)
After Jan Martszen de Jonge (c. 1609-?1648) (draughtsman)
Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652) (publisher) [bottom left:] Iacob Martss de Ionge inventor / CIVisscher excudit
Subject(s)
Army-SpainWatermark: The letters A M on a pot, fleur-de-lys above
Condition: two fold lines
20.1 x 117.6 cm (image and sheet)
cropped (platemark)
Printed title:
HOC ORDINE ATQ HAC FORMA EX ARCE / GENAPIENSI EGRESSUM VENLOUM UERSUS / SE CONTULIT PRÆSIDUM HISPANICUM / IULY 29 ANNO 1641. [tr:] HET SPAENS GUARNISOEN IS IN DESE / (HIER AFGEBEELDE) ORDRE, GETROCKEN / UYT HET HUYSTE GENNEP NA VENLOO, / OP DEN 29 IULI A.o 1641. [The figure ‘4’ is engraved in the bottom right corner.] [in Latin and Dutch, top left]
Annotation:
George III heading: Gennep 29 July 1641.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) bottom right, black pencil, in early twentieth-century hand: ? J. van de Velde [?] ?
George III catalogue entry:
Gennep Egressus Præsidii Hispanici ex Arce Genapiensi Venloum versus, 29 Julii 1641: auctore I.M. de Jonge, apud C.I. Vischer. 4 tab.
Subject(s)
Gennep (Limburg, Netherlands) 51°41ʹ54ʺN 05°58ʹ25ʺE
Bibliographic reference(s)
F. G. de Léon, The road to Rocroi: class, culture and command in the Spanish army of Flanders, 1567-1659, Leiden 2009
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 3088
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