Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
A map of Demmin 1659 (Demmin, Hansestadt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) 53°54ʹ09ʺN 13°02ʹ07ʺE
1659 or laterEtching; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B); gilt edges right and back | Scale bar: Scala di 100 piedi [47 mm =] | RCIN 723118
Demmin taken on 9 November by a combined Austrian and Brandenburgian army, fighting on the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, commanded by Count Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches (1608-82) and General Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-80). Oriented with north to top. Second Northern War (1655-1660).
Anonymous (artist)
Subject(s)
Army-SwedenWatermark: Map: I H S with cross. Mount: none.
Condition: one fold line to print and a separate fold line to the mount. Surface dirt and brown discolouration to both sides
Scale bar: Scala di 100 piedi [47 mm =]
29.5 x 37.6 cm (neatline)
29.9 x 38.0 cm (image)
cropped (platemark)
30.4 x 38.3 cm (sheet)
39.8 x 50.1 cm (mount)
9.3 x 24.4 cm (image of inset) (image)
Printed title:
DEMMIN ASSEDIATO, E PRESO DAL / GENERALE CONTE MONTECVCCOLI ANNO MDCLVIIII
Inset:
[bottom left, in scroll:] PROFILO DELLE MVRACLIE FOSSA E CONTROSCARPA / DI DEMMIN
Additional text:[top corner, below title, a key, A-F, to the redoubts and old ruined castle.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Demmin 1659.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. [left, black pencil:] 1659 (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] III/139.
George III catalogue entry:
Demmin Demmin assediata e preso dal Conte Montecuccoli, 1659
Subject(s)
Demmin, Hansestadt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (53°54ʹ09ʺN 13°02ʹ07ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 3237
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