Maps, prints and letterpress text covering the major battles and sieges
Anonymous
Battle of Bílá Hora and Prague, 1620 1620 or later
Letterpress text, probably originally printed on paper in four columns side by side, now cut into four, and joined in one vertical column; mounted on paper (Mount Type A) | 17.0 x 12.7 cm (sheet) | RCIN 721141.h
Anonymous
Battle of Bila Hora and Prague, 1620 (Bila Hora, near Prague, Czech Republic) 50?05?00?N 14?20?00?E; (Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic) 50?05'16"N 14?25'14"E 1620 or later
Detailed object viewer
Explanatory letterpress text to RCIN 721141.g. Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
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Anonymous (printmaker)
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17.0 x 12.7 cm (sheet)
41.4 x 28.8 cm (mount)
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17.0 x 12.7 cm (sheet)
41.4 x 28.8 cm (mount)
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Printed title:
No title
Annotations:
George III heading: Prague Nov.r 1620.
Other anotations: (Recto) [bottom, left of centre, red pencil, erased:] 1/123; [bottom, left of centre, black pencil, erased:] II/127. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Prague Delineationes Aciei et Pugnæ ad Pragam Factæ 7 Novembris 1620, tabulis quatuor expressæ: per Raph. Sadeler: cum Descriptionibus.
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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
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Subject(s)
Bílá Hora, near Prague, Czech Republic (50°05ʹ00ʺN 14°20ʹ00ʺE)
Prague, Hlavní Mesto Praha, Czech Republic (50°05'16"N 14°25'14"E)
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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. 2830
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