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Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)

Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War

    ? WILLIAM DILLINGHAM : CAMBRIDGE

    Map of the Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600 (Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium) 51°07'48"N 02°45'04"E

    c.1657

    Etching 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)

      Subject(s)

      Army-Holland
      Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567-1625)
      Albrecht VII, Archduke of Austria (1559-1621)
      Army-Spain

    • 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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