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Other 17th-century conflicts

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

JOANNES GEORGIUS HAUSPERSKY DE FANAL (ACTIVE 1694)

Map of Peterwardein, 1694 (Petrovaradin, Serbia) 45°14ʹ48ʺN 19°52ʹ46ʺE

drawn 1694

Pen and ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on coarse linen | Scale: not stated | RCIN 724066

A map of Imperial (Habsburg)-held Peterwardein, besieged by the Turks, commanded by Ali Pasha Sürmeli of Dimetoka, 9-22 September 1694, resulting in an Imperial victory. Great Turkish War (1683-99), part of The Nine Years War (1688-97).

Additional text: [top, below title, a key, A-I, K-T, V-Z, to features on the map.]

For further reading, see:
E.J. Brill, M. Houtsma, eds, E.J. Brill’s first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Leiden, 1987, p.186.
S.H. Winter, ‘Shiite Emirs and Ottoman Authorities’, Archivum Ottomanicum, vol.18, 2000, p.222-3.

Condition: five fold lines; cropped. Verso: heavy surface dirt along top edge; some foxing. [See RCINs 724053, 724060, 724062, 724064, 724065, 724067, 724068 for similar punched holes.]
  • Joannes Georgius Hauspersky de Fanal (active 1694) (draughtsman) [top right, at end of text:] Joannes Georgius Hausperskÿ de Fanal delineavit / 1694

    Subject(s)

    Army-Turkey
  • Watermark: None visible

    Mark, stamped: 46

    Condition: five fold lines; cropped. Verso: heavy surface dirt along top edge; some foxing. [See RCINs 724053, 724060, 724062, 724064, 724065, 724067, 724068 for similar punched holes.]

  • Scale: not stated

    25.0 x 22.1 cm (image and sheet)

  • Manuscript title:

    Grund Riß der Vöstung Peter Wardein, sambt dem Kaÿ: Campement, und wie die Armée / von dem feindt in dem selben [V]ertranchementirter [?] attaquirt worden von 9.tn biß 22 7br 1694 [top, across top of map in a trompe l'oeil scroll]

    Additional text:

    [top, below title, a key, A-I, K-T, V-Z, to features on the map.]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Peter Wardein 9-22 Sep. 1694.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, red pencil:] 3/149 [and, black pencil, cropped:] IV/[?]; [bottom right, ink, obscured by white paper strip:] Peter Waradin; [along bottom, red pencil, partly obscured by white paper strip:] [Peter] Waradin besieged by the Turks in 1694.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Peter Wardein A drawn Plan of Peter Wardein besieged by the Turks from the 9.th to the 22.d of Sept.r 1694: by I.G. Hanspersky de Fanal, 1694.

  • Subject(s)

    Petrovaradin, Serbia (45°14ʹ48ʺN 19°52ʹ46ʺE)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    E.J. Brill, M. Houtsma, (eds), E.J. Brill’s first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Leiden 1987, p. 186

    S.H. Winter, ‘Shiite Emirs and Ottoman Authorities’, Archivum Ottomanicum 18, 2000, p. 222-3

Page revisions

  • 4 June 2024