Name: Antique Print-MAASTRICHT-SIEGE-NETHERLANDS-EIGHTY YEARS? WAR-Miele-Strada-1640
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Antique Print-MAASTRICHT-SIEGE-NETHERLANDS-EIGHTY YEARS? WAR-Miele-Strada-1640

€175.00

‘TRAIECTI EXPUGNATIO ANNO 1579.’

– Original antique print showing the siege of Maastricht, The Netherlands by spanish forces under Parma in 1579. Scene from the Eighty Years’ War.

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Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 44 x 30.4 cm (17.32 x 11.97 inch). Image size: 38.5 x 29.5 cm. (15.16 x 11.61 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Original fold as issued. Paper slightly browned. Small tears at top and bottom at miccle fold and at right margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAASTRICHT-SIEGE-NETHERLANDS-EIGHTY YEARS’ WAR | PCO-E26-29

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: Jan Miel or Miele (1599 – 1664) was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy.

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.