Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Map of the siege of Maastricht, 1632 (Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands) 50°50'54"N 05°41'20"E
1632 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour and gilt on paper; mounted on paper; gilt edges to top, left, bottom and right | Scale: 1:25,000 approx. | RCIN 722064
A high oblique view of the siege and capture of Spanish-held Maastricht from 9 June to 22 August 1632 by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (29 January 1584-14 March 1647). Eighty Years War (1568-1649). Oriented with east-north-east to top.
This view/map shows Maastricht's high medieval walls, with its numerous towers and occasional earth bastions and demi-lunes, surrounded by Frederick Henry's lines of circumvallation and strongly reinforced line of contravallation. The Dutch flag is planted all along the lines at strategic points.
Anonymous (printmaker)
Subject(s)
Army-NetherlandsWatermark: Map: a bunch of grapes; countermark, indistinct: small cartouche, letters within. Mount: cropped; maltese cross inside chaplet; countermark: letters and symbols in rectangular frame: C, quatrefoil, P, heart, G.
Scale: 1:25,000 approx. Scale bar, in elaborate cartouche tr: Echelle de 500 verges D’Hollande qui font un quart de lieu D’Allemaigne [74 mm =].
34.5 x 43.9 cm (neatline)
35.3 x 44.7 cm (image)
35.6 x 45.1 cm (sheet)
49.3 x 69.0 cm (mount)
Printed title:
[No title; the name ‘Maestricht’ is written to the blank space enclosed by drawn town walls.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Maestricht besieged by Prince Henry of Orange in 1632.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top centre, red pencil:] millitary [sic]; [top right, ink:] 2; [right of centre, black pencil:] 7 [and] 40; [bottom right, partly erased and illegible, black pencil:] … by … Henry …
George III catalogue entry:
Maestricht A drawn Plan of the Siege of Maestricht by Prince Henry of Orange in 1632.
Subject(s)
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands (50°50'54"N 05°41'20"E)
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