Maps, prints and letterpress text covering the major battles and sieges
Maps, prints and letterpress text covering the major battles and sieges
Two columns of letterpress text on two pieces of paper; left column comprises two pieces of text, joined; both columns of text mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges top, right and bottom | 30.0 x 16.7 cm (sheet of left column) | RCIN 722041.b
Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665)
Printed sheet of text accompanying the map of Susa at RCIN 722041.a. War of the Mantuan Succession (1628-1631); part of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). See also RCINs 722041.a and c.
Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher)
Watermark: On text, cropped: a cartouche with letters
Condition: each column of text has had a piece of blank paper added to the bottom to make them a uniform length; a piece of blank paper has also been inserted between the columns and pasted to the inner edge of each; the whole has then been mounted on paper; the bottom of the left column of text is torn and the missing text is supplied in manuscript; brown ink stain top right; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this text in a different collection are present on the recto and verso
30.0 x 16.7 cm (sheet of left column)
27.6 x 16.6 cm (sheet of right column)
40.8 x 54.8 cm (mount)
Printed title:
PLAN AV VRAY, TANT DE LA / prinse de la ville de Suze, que des entrees & passages / de Piedmont, deseignees par le commandement / du Roy, par le sieur de Beins Escuyer & Inge- / nieur. / Auec la Carte Topografique depuis Grenoble iusques à Suze, par laquelle on peut / voir la route qu’a tenuë l’Armée du Roy. [no title on print; title on accompanying letterpress text (RCIN 772041.c)]
Annotations:
George III heading: Suza March 1629.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 1629; [on left column of text, black pencil:] D?; [right column, black pencil:] D.2.
George III catalogue entry:
Suza Plan au vray tant de la prinse de la Ville de Suze (le 7 de Mars 1629) que des entrées et passages de Piedmont: par le S.r de Beins Ing.r ensemble la Relation de tout ce qui s’est passé depuis le depart de Sa Majesté: chez Tavernier.
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
Susa, Piedmont, Italy (45°08ʹ12ʺN 07°03ʹ29ʺE)
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. nos. 2885, 2886