Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Map of Barcelona, 1652 (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) 41°23'19"N 02°09'32"W
1652 or laterPen, ink and body colour on paper, red colouring to roofs and the top of the city walls; laid down on paper and then mounted on paper (Mount Type B) | 22.3 x 35.3 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 723098
A map of Barcelona, defended by Catalan rebels and the French under the viceroy of Catalonia, Phillippe de la Motte-Houdancourt (1605-24 March 1657) and John Gaspar Ferdinand de Marchin [or Marsin], Comte de Granville (1601-1673) and besieged between July 1651 and October 1652 by Spanish forces commanded by Don Juan de Austria (the Younger) (7 April 1629-17 September 1679), resulting in the capitulation of the city on 13 October 1652. Catalan Revolt (1640-1659).
There appears to be no explanation for the letters on the view.
G Bastiani (active 1652) (cartographer) [bottom right, at foot of ‘plinth’ below title:] G Bastiani Della Città / uerso il Mare
Subject(s)
Army-SpainWatermark: Map: fleur-de-lys. Backing paper: cross in an oval, a sea horse to each side, crown with cross above, two circles with indistinct design below, letter I within third circle. Mount: none.
Mark, stamped: 11
Condition: worn and torn; repaired by being laid down on paper before being mounted; brown discolouration from paste
22.3 x 35.3 cm (image and sheet)
24.1 x 37.2 cm (mount)
Manuscript title:
[B]arcillona assediata / [?] acero de Spag. / [?] / [?]rti da Spag.li / … [bottom right, in a cartouche resembling the plinth of a statute, torn, faded, and mostly illegible]
Annotations
George III heading: Barcelona taken by the Spaniards 11 Oct.r 1652.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, on backing paper in space created by a tear in the map, in a contemprorary hand, brown ink:] 799; [bl, bp, erased and cropped:] Barcelona; [centre, below view, black pencil, erased and illegible: the old heading?]. (Verso) [top left, black pencil, in modern hand:] 5 secs with screen [this may refer to the filming for the fiche in 1988].
George III catalogue entry:
Barcelona A drawn Plan of Barcelona taken from the French by the Spaniards under the command of Don John of Austria, on the 11.th of Oct.r 1652: by G. Bastiani.
Subject(s)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (41°23'19"N 02°09'32"W)
Bibliographic reference(s)
J.H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: a study in the decline of Spain 1598-1640, Cambridge 1984, pp. 539-540
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