Miscellaneous
Maps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments
Netherlands, 1672
LES / DIX-SEPT PROUINCE DES PAÏS BAS / ou sont Remarquées / LES CONQVESTES DV ROY DANS LES PAYS BAS CATHOLIQVES / EN 1667. / ET DANS LES PROUINCES UNIES EN 1672
c.1667-72Etched; engraved; printed on paper; coloured in MS to show the march routes of the French army according to the key at 723129.b; mounted on paper (Mount Type B). | Scale: 1:900,000 approx. | RCIN 723129.a
Printed map of Netherlands, with coloured lines, in watercolour inscribed on it. War of Devolution (1667-1668) and Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). Oriented with north to top (compass rose). Etched and engraved map of the Netherlands showing the French campaign in the Spanish Netherlands in 1667 during the War of Devolution and in the opening campaign of the first year of the Franco-Dutch War in 1672.
The march routes taken by the French forces on their campaigns are not engraved on the map and are shown only in manuscript.
The coats of arms which are engraved below the title are, from left to right: 1) Mechelin, 2) Antwerp, 3) Holland, 4) Namur, 5) Limburg? (not showing bifurcated tail on the Limburg lion), 6) Guelders, 7) Luxemburg, 8) Hainault, 9) Flanders, 10) Artois, 11) Utrecht, 12) Zutphen, 13) Overijssel, 14) Dutch Republic, 15) Groningen, 16) Friesland, 17) Zeeland.
Pierre Brissart (1645-21 December 1682) (etcher)
Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) (cartographer)
Antoine de Fer (16??-1673) (print seller and publisher) [top left, in the scroll supporting a lion:] P. Brissart fe N. de Fer In [bottom left:] A Paris Chez Ant. De Fer. Dans l’Isle du Palais. sur le quay / de l’Orloge. a la sphere Royale
Watermark: None visible
Condition: Two fold lines; brown discolouration. Verso: remains of Mount Type B; no gilt edges.
Scale: 1:900,000 approx. Scale bars: Lieues communes de France [43 mm =] 10; Lieues communes d’Allemagne [40 mm =] 7; Lieues d’une Heure de chemin [43 mm =] 10; Milles d’Angleterre [43 mm =] 24.
46.0 x 60.0 cm (whole object)
Printed title:
LES / DIX-SEPT PROUINCE DES PAÏS BAS / ou sont Remarquées / LES CONQVESTES DV ROY DANS LES PAYS BAS CATHOLIQVES / EN 1667. / ET DANS LES PROUINCES UNIES EN 1672. [top left, in scrolled cartouche with two ovals containing images of Minerva at the left with a lion and a man with a club fighting off a multiple headed snake/dragon; a Dutch lion with arrows and a line of coat of arms below]
Additional text:
[bottom left, a key to the symbols used on the map and a note, ‘Auis’, explaining that the place-names shown on the map are those through which the army passed together with those that were conquered by the king; more details are given in the table accompanying the map (see 723129.b).]
Annotations:
George III heading Netherlands 1667-1672.
Other annotations (R) None. (V) None.
George III catalogue entry:
Netherlands Les 17 Provinces des Pays Bas, où sonet remarquées les Conquestes du Roy Louis XIV dans les Pays Bas Catholiques en 1667; et dans les Provinces Unies en 1672: par N. de Fer: avec une Table des Marches du Roy, 1673.
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. 3251
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