Antique Print-ADOLF VAN NIEUWENAAR-COUNT OF MOERS-80 YEARS WAR-Van Meteren-1618

Copperplate engraving / etching on verge type of hand laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20 x 35 cm. The image size is ca. 13 x 19 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 7.9 x 13.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.1 x 7.5 inch.

Plate : ‘Adolph Grave van Meurs, Nienaer …’ This plate shows a portrait of Adolf van Nieuwenaar, Count of Limburg and Moers (also: Adolf von Neuenahr) (c. 1545 – 1589). He was a statesman and soldier, who was stadtholder of Gelderland and Utrecht for the States-General of the Netherlands during the initial stages of the Eighty Years’ War. This original antique engraving originates from: ‘Belgica : l’histoire des Pays-bas d’Emanuel de Meteren : ou, Recueil des guerres, et choses memorables advenues tant es dits pays, qu’es pays voysins, depuis l’an 1315 iusques a l’an 1612 published in The Hague by Hellebrant Jacobz Wou, 1618. Text on verso.Artists and Engravers: Emanuel van Meteren or Meteeren (1535-1612) was a Flemish historian and Consul for ‘the Traders of the Low Countries’ in London. As a historian Van Meteren was special in that he was not merely a chronicler of the events of his time, but also a powerful and wealthy man who influenced those events. ‘The first edition of his ‘Historia Belgica’ was published in Latin, at Amsterdam, in 1597. A continuation was written up to the date of Meteren’s death, and a French version came out at the Hague in 1618. Meteren is the author whose evidence is most important for establishing the innocence of Anne Boleyn.

Condition: Excellent given age. General age related toning and soiling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-ADOLF VAN NIEUWENAAR-COUNT OF MOERS-80 YEARS WAR-VAN METEREN

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