Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
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).
Joannes Georgius Hauspersky de Fanal (active 1694) (draughtsman) [top right, at end of text:] Joannes Georgius Hausperskÿ de Fanal delineavit / 1694
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.
From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by George III (1738-1820)
Petrovaradin, Serbia (45°14ʹ48ʺN 19°52ʹ46ʺE)
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