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Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars

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A map of Demmin 1659 (Demmin, Hansestadt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) 53°54ʹ09ʺN 13°02ʹ07ʺE

1659 or later

Etching; 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-Sweden
  • Watermark: 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

Page revisions

  • 25 May 2024