View of Mantua, 1629 (Mantova, Lombardy, Italy) 45°09'37"N 10°47'52"E

Antonio Maria Magnani (active 1621-39) (publisher) [bottom left:] Ant.^o Maria Magnani / forma in Bologna.

Andrea Corsini (dedicatee)

Annibale Masinelli (active 1629) (dedicator)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Print: none visible. Mount: Kneeling man with cross in shield

Condition: five fold lines; formerly folded to 11.8 x 7.2 cm. Surface dirt on verso, especially along fold lines. One fold line to mount which does not coincide with any of the fold lines on the print; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this print in a different collection are present on the recto and verso

18.7 x 26.9 cm (image and sheet)

cropped (platemark)

40.1 x 54.7 cm (mount)

Printed title:

Disegno dall’ Esiercito Imperiale accompato soits / Mantoua con luoghi presi. 1629. [top right, in small cartouche above the dedication cartouche]

Dedication:

[top right, in cartouche, above the arms of the Corsini family:] All' Ill:^mo Sig:^r et Pron Col.^mo / Il Sig:^r Marchese / ANDREA CORSINI / Anibale Masinelli D.D.D.

Annotations:

George III heading: Mantua 1629.

Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, black pencil, erased:] 1625. (Verso) [top left, on mount, black pencil: II/3.[left of centre, on print, red pencil, crossed out in black pencil:] 1/141. [left of red pencil number, black pencil:] II/3; [top right, on mount, black pencil:] Mantoua.

George III catalogue entry:

Mantua Disegno dell’Essercito Imperiale accampata sotto Mantoua, con luoghi presi 1629: dal A. Masinelli et A.M. Magnani.

Bibliographic reference(s)

J. Black (ed), European warfare, 1494-1660, London 2002, pp. 143-4

Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2914