Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Anonymous
Schenkenschanz, 1635
Schenkenschanz, 1635
Kort ende doch vvaerachtighe / Beschryvinghe, van het Fort van / Schencken-Schants, hoe die door een / secreten Aenslagh van de Koningh- / schen in-genomen den 28. Julij, / en nu weder van den Door- / Iuchtigen Prins... 1635 or later
Etching and engraving; printed on paper; letterpress text is printed on a separate sheet, joined to map; laid down on paper | 17.2 x 22.4 cm (neatline) | RCIN 722096
A medium-high oblique view/map together with a view of the fortress taken from the Rhine; with letterpress text describing the early stages of the Dutch siege of the Spanish-held fortress of Schenkenschanz at the end of July 1635, begun by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (29 January 1584-14 March 1647) and carried on by his cousin, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (17 June 1604-20 December 1679). Eighty Years War (1568-1648). Oriented with north-east to top.
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Anonymous (printmaker)
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Watermark: Map: none visible. Text: vase with flower. Mount: none visible.
Condition: two fold lines; text is cropped at the bottom, perhaps cutting off the imprint
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17.2 x 22.4 cm (neatline)
17.7 x 22.7 cm (platemark)
33.4 x 23.8 cm (sheet)
44.3 x 29.1 cm (mount)
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Printed title:
Kort ende doch vvaerachtighe / Beschryvinghe, van het Fort van / Schencken-Schants, hoe die door een / secreten Aenslagh van de Koningh- / schen in-genomen den 28. Julij, / en nu weder van den Door- / Iuchtigen Prins belegert / is, den 30. Julij 1635. [on letterpress text]
Inset:
[below the map, engraved on the same copperplate, a view of the fortress, taken from the Rhine side:] Vertooninge der Schants na der Rein sijden
Annotations:
George III heading: Schenken-schantz 1635. Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Schenken-schantz A small Plan and View with a Description of Schenken schantz taken by surprize by the Spaniards on the 28th, and besieged by the Prince of Orange on the 30.th of July 1635.
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From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by George III (1738-1820)
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Subject(s)
Schenkenschanz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°50ʹ09ʺN 06°06ʹ37ʺE)
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