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

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Siege of Nîmes, 1622

LE PLAN ET SITVATION DE LA VILLE DE NISME, ET COMME IL LEST / Inuesty par les troupes de sa Majeste attendant la preparation du Siege

published 1622

Etching and engraving; accompanying letterpress printed on the same sheet of paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges top, right and bottom | 23.1 x 30.7 cm (image and neatline of map) | RCIN 722010

A view of the Royal catholic siege of Protestant Nîmes in 1622 resulting in the capitulation of the town. Huguenot Rebellions or Rohan Wars (1620-22). Oriented with west to top.

This view shows the siege of Nîmes being prosecuted by the forces of Louis XIII who have constructed a defensive wall around the eastern side of the town. Four batteries of between five and six cannon each stand ready to bombard the walls. Following the Treaty of Montpellier (see RCIN 722009) Nîmes was allowed to preserve half of her fortifications, the remainder were destroyed.

  • Anonymous (printmaker)

    Guillaume Nicolas (active 1622) (publisher) ‘[bc of letterpress text:] A LYON, Chés GVILLAUME NICOLAS, en rüe Merciere 1622

  • Watermark: None visible

    Condition: three fold lines to print; heavy brown discolouration; waterstained patch bottom left. One fold line to mount which coincides with the central fold line of the print; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this print in a different collection are present on the recto and verso but are more visible on the verso

  • 23.1 x 30.7 cm (image and neatline of map)

    cropped (platemark of whole sheet)

    49.5 x 32.9 cm (image and sheet)

    55.0 x 40.7 cm (mount)

  • Printed title:

    LE PLAN ET SITVATION DE LA VILLE DE NISME, ET COMME IL LEST / Inuesty par les troupes de sa Majeste attendant la preparation du Siege. [across top of map]

    Additional text:

    [right, in rectangular cartouche, a key, A-I, K-S to the main features of the town. Letterpress text below map, begins:] Qvi n’admirera la ruse que la Nature a donné l’Aigle pour poursuiure le / Cerf …

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Nismes 1622.

    Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil:] 1622. (Verso) [left, across text and mount, red pencil:] 1/136 [and, black pencil:] I/140; [bottom left, black pencil:] I/140.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Nismes Le Plan et Situation de la Ville de Nisme comme elle est investie par les Troupes de sa Majesté attendant la preperation [sic] du Siege, 1622; avec une Description: chez Guillaume Nicolas, 1622.

  • Subject(s)

    Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussilon, France (43°50°00ʺN 04°21°00ʺE)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    H.M. Baird, The Huguenots and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Eugene 1895; reprinted 2004, p.227

    M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2845

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  • 14 March 2024