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SEBASTIANO DI RE (ACTIVE C. 1557-1563)

Siege of Thionville, 1558

Il uero disegno di Thionuille: il qual hora si batte dall'esercito del Re / Christianissimo, con la giunta delle batterie et de tutti luoghi circouicini

1558 or later

Etching with engraving; printed on paper; laid down on paper then mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges left, bottom and right | 27.8 x 34.4 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 721028

A medium oblique view of the siege by the French, commanded by Francis, Duke of Guise (17 February 1519-24 February 1563) of the Spanish army at Thionville in May and June resulting in the fall of the town on 22 June 1558. The last Valois-Habsburg War (1547-1559). Oriented with north-west to top (but north is indicated: SEPTENTRIO).

This view appears to show an earlier phase in the attack on Thionville than RCIN 721027; there are no breaches in the walls. The positions of the towers in the walls are reversed in this print. For a description of the action, see RCIN 721027.

  • Sebastiano di Re (active c. 1557-1563) (engraver) [bottom, right of centre:] Sebastianus faciebat [top left corner, in reversed letters:] BB

  • Watermark: Indistinct: three-runged ladder in double circle (not in Woodward); [on backing paper:] cross in tear drop shape

    Condition: no fold lines; old crease marks; cropped to edge of image

  • 27.8 x 34.4 cm (image and sheet)

    cropped (platemark)

    41.3 x 54.5 cm (mount)

  • Printed title:

    Il uero disegno di Thionuille: il qual hora si batte dall'esercito del Re / Christianissimo, con la giunta delle batterie et de tutti luoghi circouicini. [top centre, in a panel]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Thionville 1558.

    Other annotations: (Recto) [top left of mount, red pencil:] Thionville 1558; [top centre on mount, very faint black pencil, partly erased:] taken by the Duke of Guise; [bottom right of mount:, black pencil:] 1558. (Verso) [top left, on mount, red pencil:] 1/25 [top left, on mount, indistinct, black pencil:] II/28.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Thionville Disegno di Thionville il qual hora si batte dall’ Essercito del Re Christianissimo, con la giunta delle Batterie et de tutti luoghi circonvicini. Sebastianus faciebat.

  • Subject(s)

    Thionville, Lorraine, France (49°22ʹ00ʺN 06°10ʹ00ʺE)

  • 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. 2661

    R.V. Tooley, ‘Maps in Italian atlases of the sixteenth century, being a comparative list of the Italian maps issued by Lafreri, Forlani, Duchetti, Bertelli and others, found in atlases’, Imago Mundi III, 1939, pp. 12-47,no. 549

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  • 14 March 2024