Watermark: Cropped: a six-pointed star

Condition: one fold line; a rectangle 20.4 x 22.3 cm, perhaps containing further text, has been cut from the bottom right corner. Verso: remains of old guard or mount along left edge

35.5 x 8.4 cm (first sheet)

6.0 x 17.0 cm (second sheet)

6.4 x 17.8 cm (third sheet)

6.3 x 13.4 cm (fourth sheet)

53.1 x 39.9 cm (mount)

Printed title:

None

Additional text:Text of each piece begins:

[1] [Heading:] EN CETTE IOVRNEE / est representé comme Monseigneur / le Duc de Mercœur Lieutenant / General de l’Empereur, s’achemi- / na pour secourir la Ville de Cani- / se, assiegée par le Turc, & l’ordre / que son Excellence y tint. [The word ‘Octobre’ in the penultimate line is underlined in red.] 

[2] [Continuation of text 1, begin:] Le lendemain septiéme dudit mois, … [the word ‘septiéme’ is underlined in red.]

[3] [A key, A-I, L-T, V, to the letters on the view:] Chefs et Troupes des Chrestiens.

[4] [A key, 1-13, to the view:] Chefs des Turcs, & leurs Troupes.

Annotations:

George III heading: Canissa 7 Oct. 1600.

Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil:] 1600; [bottom left, black pencil, erased:] I/10[2]-b. (Verso) none.

George III catalogue entry:

Canissa Representation of the Imperial Army, commanded by the Duke of Mercœur, coming to the relief of Canissa, besieged by the Turks, on the 7.^th of Oct.^r 1600; with a Description, and a Portrait of the Duke of Mercœur: by Thomas de Leu.

From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio’s grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762