View of the siege of Pitigliano, 1643 (Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy) 42°38ʹ08ʺN 11°40ʹ28ʺE

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 [bottom centre of key print:]

Subject(s)

Watermark: Prints: sun within a circle. Mount: None.

Condition: one fold line to bottom print; pressure marks. Verso: surface dirt; ink stains

22.0 x 28.8 cm (image and sheet of view)

cropped (platemark of view)

22.7 x 28.4 cm (image and sheet of dedication and text)

cropped (platemark of dedication and text)

51.7 x 35.2 cm (mount)

Printed title:

Piti / gliano e Sora / no [two prints, one above the other: a view of the battle of Pitigliano 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-I, L-M, to the letters on the upper print.

Annotations:

George III heading: Pitigliano 24 Oct. 1643.

Other annotations: none.

George III catalogue entry:

Pitigliano A View of the Action of Pitigliano on the 24.^th of Oct.^re 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. 3143, 3144

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