Susa, 1629 (Susa, Piedmont, Italy) 45°08ʹ12ʺN 07°03ʹ29ʺE

Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher)

Subject(s)

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.

Bibliographic reference(s)

M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. nos. 2885, 2886