La Rochelle, 1627 (La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France) 46°10ʹ00ʺN 01°09ʹ00ʺW

Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher) [bottom right:] A PARIS, / Chez MELCHIOR TAVERNIER Graueur & Imprimeur du Roy / pour les Tailles douces, en l’Isle du Palais, sur le Quay qui / regarde la Megesserie, à l’Espy d’Or. 1628.

Subject(s)

Watermark: Cropped: fleur-de-lys; none on mount

Condition: about eight fold lines; very worn, with holes along top edge, as if the text was formerly pasted down on paper and then stripped off; it appears, from the matching fold lines and surface dirt on the versos of both RCINs 722026.a and b that RCIN 722026.b was formerly pasted down along the bottom edge of RCIN 722026.a. Two fold lines to the mount, one of which coincides with the central fold line of the print; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this map/print in a different collection are present on the recto and verso

17.3 x 44.2 cm (image and sheet)

cropped (platemark)

40.1 x 54.9 cm (mount)

Printed title:

PLAN VERITABLE ET TRES / EXACT DV SIEGE DE LA ROCHELLE / faict ce quinziesme de Mars 1628, / par Melchior Tauernier Graueur / & Imprimeur de sa Majesté / pour les Tailles douces, / demeurant à l’Isle / du Palais à / l’Espi d’or.

Annotations:

George III heading: Rochelle March 1628.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left and top, left of centre, on mount, black pencil:] II/16; [top, left of centre, on mount, red pencil, crossed out in black pencil:] 1/54.

George III catalogue entry:

Rochelle Plan du Siege de la Rochelle fait ce 15 de Mars 1628: par M. Tavernier, avec une Description.

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. 2866