Thirty Years War (1618-48)
Maps, prints and letterpress text covering the major battles and sieges of the war
Pouzin, 1628
PLAN du siege du POUZIN / en Viuaretz assiegee et rendue en lobeis: / sense du Roy le [blank space] mil [blank space]
1628 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper; guarded into a volume | 37.4 x 54.7 cm (image and neatline) | RCIN 722039.c
A middle to high oblique view of Protestant-held Pouzin, besieged 25 May-3 June 1628 by Henri II de Montmorency (1595-30 October 1632), Governor of Languedoc, resulting in the capture of the town on 3 June 1628. Huguenot Rebellions or Rohan Wars (1627-1629). Oriented with west to top (cardinal points).
There is no accompanying text to explain the letters on the view. Another impression of this view (in the Bibliothèque nationale de France) has the missing dates in the title supplied in ink: 'le 3 juin mil six cens vint huit.' What appears to be a loose copy of this view, lacking all lettering and the cardinal point which is engraved in the river, is published in Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste, XIII (1649), following a brief note of the action on p.57.
The attribution of the print to Beins and Bosse is made by François de Dainville p.72, who says: 'Ce plan anonyme, non daté, gravé par Abr. Bosse, a certainement été dessiné par J. de Beins.'
Another example of this print is at RCIN 722046.
This is one of an untitled volume of fifteen prints and maps of the campaigns of Louis XIII between 1629 and 1640. See 722039 for the main entry.
? Jean de Beins (1577-1651) (draughtsman)
? Abraham Bosse (1604-76) (printmaker)
? Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher)
Watermark: Large coat of arms
Condition: one fold line; surface dirt and slight foxing to both sides; wormholes to bottom margin, matching the holes in the folio above and below. Verso: some offsetting
37.4 x 54.7 cm (image and neatline)
37.9 x 54.9 cm (platemark)
45.3 x 60.3 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN du siege du POUZIN / en Viuaretz assiegee et rendue en lobeis: / sense du Roy le [blank space] mil [blank space]. [top left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[top left, below title, in title panel, a key, A-I, K-T, V, X-Z to the town, batteries, and named regiments of the besieging army.]
Annotations:
George III heading: none.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, brown ink, slightly cropped:] [2 or 3].
George III catalogue entry:
France Campagnes de Louis XIII (Les Plans des Sieges et des Batailles données en France et en Italie par le Roy Louis XIII depuis 1629 jusques a 1640) Fol.
Subject(s)
Le Pouzin, Rhône-Alpes, France (44°45ʹ06ʺN 04°44ʹ53ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
L.Art de Verifier les Dates, 2, Third Edition, Paris 1784, p. 657
F. de Dainville, Le Dauphiné et ses confins vus par l’Ingénieur d’Henri IV Jean de Beins, Geneva 1968, p. 72
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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