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Other 17th-century conflicts

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

VALERIO SPADA (1613-88)

View of Nonantola, 1643 (Nonantola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 44°40ʹ40ʺN 11°02ʹ16ʺE

1643 or later

Etching; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B, cropped) | 38.2 x 61.6 cm (neatline) | RCIN 723032

A view of Franceso I d'Este, Duke of Modena (6 September 1610-14 October 1658), attacking the papal armies of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (5 August 1607-3 August 1671) and forcing them to retreat on 20 July 1643. First War of Castro (1641-1644).

The dedication is in a ribbon held aloft by a double-headed eagle showing the arms of Franceso D'Este, 1st Duke of Modena and suspending an oval portrait of the Duke.

  • Valerio Spada (1613-88) (etcher) [bottom centre, inside neatline:] VS fecit

    Mario Federici Cimador da Carpi (active 1643) (cartographer and dedicator)

    Subject(s)

    Francesco I Este, Duke of Modena, 2s.Alphonso 1 D/Modena (1610-58)
    Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Archbishop of Reims (1608-71)
  • Watermark: None visible

    Condition: six fold lines; pressure marks. Verso: ink smudge; remains of [Mount Type B]; brown discolouration from paste

  • 38.2 x 61.6 cm (neatline)

    42.5 x 61.7 cm (image and sheet)

    cropped (platemark)

  • Printed title:

    NONANTOLA [top centre, in banderole]

    Printed title:

    SOCCORSO / PORTATO dall’ Arme del Ser:me di Modona a Nonantola / e la rotta data alle due Armate de’ Barb rini sotto il / comando una di Monsu’ di Valenze Franzese, e l’altra del / Marche Mattei Romano con la morte di Don Franco Gonzaga / & altri mora e prigione seguita a 20 Luglio MD.C.XLIII [bottom centre, below view]

    Dedication:

    [top left] All Altezza del Ser:mo Franceso d'Este Duca di Modona Reggio, e Carpi … dal Campo 25 Agosto 1643 / Fedeliss:o Suddito e Seruo / Mario Federici Cimador da Carpi

    Additional text:

    [below view, a key, A-I, L-T, V.] 

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Nonantola 20 July 1643.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, black pencil, in an early twentieth-century hand:] Valerio Spada fecit.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Nonantola Soccorso portato dall’ Arme del Ser.me di Modona a Nonantola, e la Rotta dato alle due Armate de Barberini, 20 Luglio 1643: da M.F. Cimador da Carpi, 1643. V. Spada fecit.

  • Subject(s)

    Nonantola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (44°40ʹ40ʺN 11°02ʹ16ʺE)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    The print is mentioned in C. Campori, Raimondo Montecuccoli, la sua famiglia e i suoi tempi, Firenze 1876, pp. 170-171, chapter IV, ‘Guerra di Nonantola, episodio di quella di castro’

    Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 3127

Page revisions

  • 23 May 2024