Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652)
Siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635
Siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635
Iegentheydt van SCHENCKEN-SCHANS / mitsgaders de Belegeringe ende nieuwe Schans- / sen daer omtrent met groote vlijt gemeten ende / getekent door den wel-ervaren Ingenieur Ioan- /nes Iacobi Schort. Alsmede een... 1635 or later
Letterpress text on three pieces of paper, joined to one column of text; not mounted | 43.5 x 8.2 cm (sheet) | RCIN 722093.b
Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652)
Siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635 (Schenkenschanz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 51?50?09?N 06?06?37?E 1635 or later
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Letterpress text accompanying the map of the siege of Schenkenschanz, 1635, at RCIN 722093.a. Eighty Years War (1568-1648).
See also RCINs 722093.c-e.
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Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652) (publisher) [bottom of RCIN 722093.e:] t’ AMSTELREDAM, By Claes Jansz. Visscher.
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Watermark: None visible
Condition: no fold lines; brown discolouration
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43.5 x 8.2 cm (sheet)
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Printed title:
Iegentheydt van SCHENCKEN-SCHANS / mitsgaders de Belegeringe ende nieuwe Schans- / sen daer omtrent met groote vlijt gemeten ende / getekent door den wel-ervaren Ingenieur Ioan- /nes Iacobi Schort. Alsmede een Iournael van /’tgene daghelijcks, soo inde veroveringhe der / Spaenschen, als inde gantsche belegeringhe der / H.H. Staten van de Vereenichde Provintien is / voorghevallen.
Annotations:
George III heading: Schenken-schantz 1635
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) each of the twelve pieces of paper is numbered separately in ink [contemporary with Cassiano dal Pozzo?] from 1 to 12. [See also RCINs 722093.c-f]
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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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. 2975
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