Other 17th-century conflicts
Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Smolensk, 1633
ICONICA REPRÆSENTATIO SMOLENSCENSIS OBSIDIONIS, DEDITIQUE POST EAM SOLUTAM, / ET VERE SUB JUGUM MISSI VALIDISSIMI EXERCITVS MOSCOVITICI … Vilnentis Palatini Lithua- … NOBILISSIMI VERO, ET AMPLISSIMI SENATUS POPULIQUE GEDANENSIS...
published 1635Letterpress title panel on six pieces of paper, joined to form two title strips; mounted on paper (Mount Type A) | 16.7 x 109.7 cm (image and sheet of top text) | RCIN 722074.b
Accompanying text to the view of Smolensk at RCIN 722074.a. Smolensk War (1632-1634). See also RCINs 722074.c and d.
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) (publisher)
Andreas Hünefeldt (1581-1666) (print seller)
Watermark: Text: uncertain, cropped: a pot with the letters WSB, three flowers coming out of pot. Mount: cropped, a kneeling figure in shield.
Condition: text: each strip with fold and crease lines; heavily repaired, possibly at the time of mounting; top strip torn and cut at right fold line; brown discoloration to text and mount; no gilt edges
16.7 x 109.7 cm (image and sheet of top text)
6.4 x 99.7 cm (image and sheet of bottom text)
34.7 x 47.9 cm (mount)
Printed title:
ICONICA REPRÆSENTATIO SMOLENSCENSIS OBSIDIONIS, DEDITIQUE POST EAM SOLUTAM, / ET VERE SUB JUGUM MISSI VALIDISSIMI EXERCITVS MOSCOVITICI … Vilnentis Palatini Lithua- … NOBILISSIMI VERO, ET AMPLISSIMI SENATUS POPULIQUE GEDANENSIS, CLEMENTISSIMI REGIS SUI … est anno M DC XXXV.
Annotations:
George III heading: Smolensk 1633.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil, erased:] Smolensk. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Smolensk Expugnatio Exercitus Muscovitici Obsidione prementis Urbem Smolenskum ductu Vladislai IV Poloniæ et Sueciæ Regis A.o 1633: per Adolphum Boy, incisa a Salomon Savery, apud G. Blaeu et A. Hunefeldt. 4 tab. cum Descriptione, 1635.
Subject(s)
Smolensk, Russia (54°46ʹ54ʺN 32°02ʹ24ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no 2948, 2949
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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