Smolensk, 1633 (Smolensk, Russia) 54°46ʹ54ʺN 32°02ʹ24ʺE

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) (publisher)

Andreas Hünefeldt (1581-1666) (print seller)

Subject(s)

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.

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