Name: Antique Print-BOMMELERWAARD-NETHERLANDS-BATTLE-EIGHTY YEARS? WAR-Strada-1640
SKU: PICTURA-07232
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Antique Print-BOMMELERWAARD-NETHERLANDS-BATTLE-EIGHTY YEARS? WAR-Strada-1640

€120.00

‘OBSESSI APUD BOMMELIAM HISPANI AN.1585.’

– Original antique print showing the Spanish army under the command of count van Mansfeld defeated by the Dutch forces under the Count of Hohenlohe in 1585 in the Bommelerwaard, The Netherlands. Scene from the Eighty Years’ War.

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Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 44.2 x 31.5 cm (17.4 x 12.4 inch). Image size: 40 x 27.8 cm. (15.75 x 10.94 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Original fold as issued. Paper near middle fold slightly browned. Small hole in bottom margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BOMMELERWAARD-NETHERLANDS-BATTLE-EIGHTY YEARS’ WAR | PCO-E26-04

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 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.