River Scheldt, Antwerp, Bergen op Zoom, Slaak and Zandvliet, 1631 (Scheldt river, Belgium and the Netherlands); (Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium) 51°13'11"N 04°25'12"E; (Bergen op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands) 51°29'42"N 04°17'30"E; (Slaak,

Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652) (publisher) [at end of French text:] T’AMSTERDAM, Gedruckt by Claes Iansz Visscher.

Subject(s)

Watermark: Text: none. Mount: None.

Condition: each piece of text with one fold line; one fold line to the mount which does not coincide with the text fold lines; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this map/print in a different collection are present on the recto and verso

17.0 x 31.7 cm (sheet of top text)

16.6 x 31.8 cm (bottom sheet of text)

53.6 x 39.5 cm (mount)

Printed title:

Kort en bondigh / verhael vande spaensche scheeps / Armade tot Antwerpen toegerust ende / van daer gevaren den 10 Septemb. 1631. // Bref & vray recit de l’Armée Espai- / gnole, equippée en Anvers; & partie de là, le 10 de Septembre, l’An 1631.

Annotations:

George III heading: Naval Engagement in the Schelde &^c. 10 – 13 September 1631.

Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, on mount, black pencil, erased:] Fleet Spain. (Verso) [top text, in a ‘dal Pozzo’ hand? ink:] B; [centre, red pencil:] 1/184; [bottom left, black pencil:] II/49-b.

George III catalogue entry:

Naval Engagement A Map of the Mouths of the Schelde relative to the Spanish Expedition from Antwerp on the 10.^th of Sept.^r 1631; with a View of the defeat of the Spanish Fleet by the Dutch on the 13.^th of Sept.^r 1631: by C.I. Visscher, 1632: with a Description. [The same entry appears under the heading Schelde]

Bibliographic reference(s)

M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2934, 2935