Name: Antique Print-KOUWENSTEINSEDIJK-ANTWERP-BATTLE-BELGIUM-80 YEARS? WAR-Strada-1640
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Antique Print-KOUWENSTEINSEDIJK-ANTWERP-BATTLE-BELGIUM-80 YEARS? WAR-Strada-1640

€135.00

‘PUGNA IN AGGERE COVENSTENIO ANNO 1585.’

– Original antique print showing the Battle of Kouwensteinsedijk between Dutch and Spanish forces on 7 and 26 may 1585, Antwerp in Belgium during the Eighty Years’ War. Scene from the Eighty Years’ War.

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Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 43 x 31.5 cm (16.93 x 12.4 inch). Image size: 41 x 30 cm. (16.14 x 11.81 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Original fold as issued. Some browning near middle fold and upper right. Paper separation along top middle fold, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

KOUWENSTEINSEDIJK-ANTWERP-BATTLE-BELGIUM-EIGHTY YEARS’ WAR | PCO-E26-13

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: Engraver unknown or to be determined.

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.