Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
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Siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635
Siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635
Nouvelle & parfaicte Carte de la si / tuation du Fort de SCHENCK, / avec l’Assiegement & nouveaux Forts qui / sont aux environs, mesuré & marqué avec / grande diligence par l’expert Ingenieur Iean / Iaques Schort... 1635 or later
Letterpress text on four pieces of paper, mounted on paper {Mount Type A) | 43.5 x 8.0 cm (sheet of first column) | RCIN 722093.f
Printed text on the siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635. Eighty Years War (1568-1648).
This text appears to be incomplete; it takes the account of the siege down only to 23 October 1635. It does not apply to the map at RCIN 722093.a because it refers to letters, A-E which do not appear on RCIN 722093.a; however, letters A-G do appear on RCIN 722094.
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Anonymous (printmaker)
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Watermark: Text: none. Mount: cropped, figure in shield.
Condition: one fold line; brown discoloration from the ink numbers; paper has been damaged by the acid from the ink
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43.5 x 8.0 cm (sheet of first column)
43.6 x 8.0 cm (sheet of second column)
43.4 x 8.1 cm (sheet of third column)
43.0 x 8.0 cm (sheet of fourth column)
54.7 x 40.8 cm (mount)
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Printed title:
Nouvelle & parfaicte Carte de la si / tuation du Fort de SCHENCK, / avec l’Assiegement & nouveaux Forts qui / sont aux environs, mesuré & marqué avec / grande diligence par l’expert Ingenieur Iean / Iaques Schort. Comme aussi un Iournal de / ce qui est journellement passé, tant en la / conqueste des Espagnols, qu’au siege entier / des Hauts puissans Seigneurs les Estats des / Provinces Vnies. [at head of first column]
Annotations:
George III heading: Schenken-schantz 1635
Other annotations: (Recto) [top centre, black pencil, erased:] [?] relieved by Prince Maurice 1591. (Verso) [each of the four pieces of paper is numbered separately in ink, perhaps contemporary with dal Pozzo, from 1 to 4]; [right, red pencil:] 1/84; [top right and bottom left, black pencil:] I/88-b.
George III catalogue entry:
Schenken-schantz Carte de la situation du Fort de Schenck et des nouveaux Forts qui sont aux Environs, avec l’Assiegement par le Prince d’Orange en 1635: par I.I. Schort Ing.r 1635. 2 feuilles: avec une Vue du Fort par C.I. Visscher, et un Journal du Siege.
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From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio’s grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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Subject(s)
Schenkenschanz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°50ʹ09ʺN 06°06ʹ37ʺE)
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