Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Letterpress text printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type A) | 20.1 x 14.5 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 722019.b
Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665)
Accompanying text to the view at RCIN 722019.a.
Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher) [bottom of text:] A Paris chez MELCHIOR TAVERNIER Graueur & Imprimeur du / Roy pour les Tailles douces, demeurant en l’Isle du Palais, sur le / Quay qui regarde la Megisserie, à l’Espic d’Or.
N. Du Carlo (active 1625) (engraver) [Following title:] Deßigné par DV CARLO Ingenieur & Geographe ordinaire du Roy
Watermark: Text: the letters B V inside a bunch of grapes. Mount: none.
20.1 x 14.5 cm (image and sheet)
35.1 x 26.5 cm (mount)
Printed title:
L’ARMEE NAVALE DES HVGVENOTS / REBELLES ENTIEREMENT DEFAITE PAR MONSIEVR / de Montmorancy Admiral de France, auec la descente qu’il fit faire / en l’Isle d’Oleron le 17. Septembre 1625. / TROISIESME IOVRNEE.
Annotations:
George III heading: Naval Engagement off the Island of Ré &c 17 Sep. 1625.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom, red pencil:] 1/145-2.
George III catalogue entry:
Ré L’Armée Navale des Huguenots Rebelles entierement defaite par l’Admiral de Montmorancy avec la descente qu’il fit faire en l’Isle d’Oleron le 17 Sept.re 1625: par Ducarlo Ing.r chez Tavernier. 4 feuilles.
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
Île d’Oléron, Poitou-Charentes, France (45°56ʹ00ʺN 01°18ʹ00ʺW)
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2857