Name: Antique Print-BATTLE-GETE RIVER-BELGIUM-ALVA-PRINCE OF ORANGE-Baur-Strada-1640
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Antique Print-BATTLE-GETE RIVER-BELGIUM-ALVA-PRINCE OF ORANGE-Baur-Strada-1640

€175.00

‘PUGNA AD GETAM FLUVIUM ALBANO GUBERNATORE. 1568.’

– Original antique print showing the battle on the River Gete near Jodoigne en Tirlemont, Belgium (southern Netherlands). The army of the prince of Orange is defeated by the Spanish army under Alva 1568.

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Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 43.5 x 30.5 cm (17.13 x 12.01 inch). Image size: 41.8 x 29.3 cm. (16.46 x 11.54 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Original middle fold as issued. Light paper spots at center. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BATTLE-GETE RIVER-BELGIUM-ALVA-PRINCE OF ORANGE | PCO-E26-28

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This rare antique print originates from: ‘Romani e Societate Iesv De bello Belgico.’, published by Franciscus Corbeletti in Rome 1640.

Reference: Reference: Hollstein Dutch 16, FMH 807-a.

Biography engraver: Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 – Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Biography artist: Famiano Strada (1572 ? 6 September 1649) was an Italian Jesuit and historian of wars in the low countries (Belgium and Netherlands) during the early part of the Eighty Years’ War, starting with the abdication of Charles V in 1556 to the capture of Rheinsberg in 30 January 1590.