Ottoman-Habsburg Wars (1521-1791)
Images from eight wars fought between 1570 and 1718
View of Nice, 1543 (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur, France) 43°42'11"N 07°15'57"E
published 1602Etching with engraving; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B); gilt edge, right | 23.7 x 39.7 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 721012
A view of the attack of a combined Franco-Turkish fleet, commanded by Khair ed-Din (Barbarossa) on Nice. The Ottoman Empire (1500-1606): Conflicts in the Mediterranean (1532-1565): The Fourth War of Francis I and Charles V (1542-1544). Oriented with north to top (‘TRAMONTANA; ‘LEVANTE’ is written to the right edge and ‘PONENTE’ appears along the left edge and ‘MEZZO DI’ at the bottom).
BNF GED-26340(RES) is a hand-coloured example of the original publication, 1543.
Enea Vico (1523-67) (engraver) [centre left:] ·M·D·XLIII· / ·Æ·V·
Schoel, Henrik van (d.1622) : Rome (publisher) [left of centre, inside bottom edge:] Henric van Schoel formis rome 1602.
Subject(s)
Navy-FranceNavy-Ottoman EmpireWatermark: Fleur-de-lys in circle, crown above [see Woodward nos 103-106; similar to Woodward no. 104]
Condition: two fold lines; badly water-stained; slightly creased; closely cropped along top and left edges before being mounted; top right corner cut diagonally
23.7 x 39.7 cm (image and sheet)
cropped (platemark)
25.1 x 40.6 cm (mount)
Printed title
·NIZZA·[top, above town]
Annotations:
George III heading: Nice besieged by Barbarossa and Count Enguien in August 1543.
Other annotations: (Recto) [black pencil, beneath old heading, mostly illegible:] [?] Barbarossa in 1543 10-22 August; [top left, black pencil:] I/12. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Nice A View of Nice, besieged by Barbarossa and Count Enguien in August 1543; by Æ. V. (Ænea Vico) 1543: published by H. van Schoel, 1602.
Subject(s)
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur, France (43°42'11"N 07°15'57"E)
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. 2646
E. Pognon, ‘La vue cavalière de Nice gravée en 1543 par Enea Vico’, Actes du quatre-vingt-dixième Congrès National des Sociétés savantes, Nice, 1965
R.V. Tooley, ‘Maps in Italian atlases of the sixteenth century, being a comparative list of the Italian maps issued by Lafreri, Forlani, Duchetti, Bertelli and others, found in atlases’, Imago Mundi III, 1939, pp. 12-47, no. 423
F.B. Salvadori, Carte, piante e stampe storiche delle raccolte Lafreriane della Bibliotea nazionale di Firenze, Indici e Cataloghi Nuova Serie XI, Rome 1980, p.xv
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