Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Scheldt estuary and Flanders, 1600
Ectypoma classis bis mille octingentarum navium Ductore Illustrissimo Principe MAURITIO Nassovio in Flandriam appulsæ XXII. Juny. M.VI.C
1640 or laterEtching and engraving; printed from two copperplates on two sheets of paper | 37.7 x 97.5 cm (image of whole object) | RCIN 721097
A view of the disembarking of the Dutch army, commanded by Maurice of Nassau (14 November 1567-23 April 1625), on the Flanders coast on 22 June 1600. The Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648).
Maurice was ordered by the States General, against his better judgment, to continue the conquest of the coastal strip of Flanders as far south as Nieuport and Dunkirk instead of taking the inland towns of Bruges and Ghent. This view shows the Dutch forces, which had assembled at Zeeland, crossing the Scheldt with a fleet of 8,000 ships and landing on the shores of Flanders at Philippine (51°16ʹ51ʺN 03°45ʹ35ʺE) and Sas van Gent (51°13ʹ39ʺN 03°47ʹ55ʺE). The view is taken from the north, looking south towards Ghent (51°03ʹ00ʺN 03°43ʹ00ʺE), Assenede (51°13ʹ34ʺN 03°45ʹ03ʺE), Eeklo (51°11ʹ13ʺN 03°33ʹ24ʺE), Watervliet (51°16ʹ30ʺN 03°37ʹ34ʺE), and Brugge (51°12ʹ32ʺN 03°13ʹ27ʺE). The disembarked troops are shown marching into Flanders.
After Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (Haarlem 1566-Haarlem 1640) (artist)
Nicolaes Johannes Visscher I (1618-79) (publisher) [in a cartouche, bottom right:] HENRICVS VROOM INVEN / Nicolaes Ioannis Visscher excu.
Watermark: None visible
Condition: five fold lines; worn and surface dirt along folds; small tears, top and bottom, to two fold lines. Verso: old paper repair to small tear, top, centre left
37.7 x 97.5 cm (image of whole object)
37.9 cm x [cropped] (left platemark)
37.7 cm x [cropped] (right platemark)
39.9 x 100.0 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
Ectypoma classis bis mille octingentarum navium Ductore Illustrissimo Principe MAURITIO Nassovio in Flandriam appulsæ XXII. Juny. M.VI.C [across top of view]
Dedication:
[bottom left, in cartouche:] Illust.mis Nobiliss.mis Amplissimisq. D.Dnīs. Ordinibus confæderatarii Inferioris / Germaniæ Provinciar: atq Ill.mo Nobilissmoq Heroi Mauritio Nassouia. Principi Vraniæ &c. Dnis suis clementissmis D.D. H. Vroom Haerlemensis.
Additional text:
[below view, twelve columns of engraved text, begins:] Adspice ut instructas armisq virisq carinas / Ostentet tabula insignis. quam Palladis arte / Divina effinxit sollers manus: utq per altum …
Annotations:
George III heading: Flanders 22 June 1600.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom, centre right, brown ink:] 249 3; [bottom right, black pencil, erased:] Flanders.
George III catalogue entry:
Flanders Ectypoma Classis bis mille octingentarum Navium Ductore Illustrissimo Principe Mauritio Nassovio in Flandrium appulsæ 22 Junii 1600: a Henrico Vroom, excusa a N.I. Visscher. 2 tab.
Subject(s)
Western Scheldt, Netherlands
Bibliographic reference(s)
C. Oman, A history of the art of war in the sixteenth century, London, reprinted 1989, pp. 584-6
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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