View of the Battle of Mongiovino, 1643 (Mongiovino, Umbria, Italy) 43°01ʹ16ʺN 12°08ʹ37ʺE

Valerio Spada (1613-88) (etcher) [bottom centre of top print, to each side of the centre:] Valerio Spada fece

? Giovanni Battista Rontini (active 1643-57) (publisher) [bottom centre of key print:] Con Priuilegio di S.A. Ser:^ma / Valerio Spada fece / Rontini

Subject(s)

Watermark: Prints: sun within circle. Mount: none.

Condition: water-stained patches on dedication

21.5 x 28.2 cm (sheet of view)

cropped (platemark of view)

23.3 x 28.3 cm (sheet of dedication and text)

cropped (platemark of dedication and text)

51.6 x 32.7 cm (mount)

Printed title:

Mongiuino [two prints, one above the other: a view of the battle of Mongiovino and, below, the key to the letters on the view; top print; top centre, in banderole]

Dedication:

[top centre of bottom, key, print:] Al Ser. Pripe Mattias di Toscana

Additional text:

[bottom print, a key, A-G to the letters on the upper print.

Annotations:

George III heading: Mongiuino 6 Sep. 1643.

Other annotations: none.

George III catalogue entry:

Mongiuino A View of the Action of Mongiuino on the 6.^th of Sept.^r 1643: by Valerio Spada.

Bibliographic reference(s)

Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. nos. 3139, 3140

P.D. Massar, ‘The prints of Valerio Spada – I’, Print Quarterly III, no. 3, 1986, pp. 217-223