Description
Illustrates the fort’s layout and surrounding battleground with advancing cavalry and ships offshore.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Commelin.
Medium: Etching on hand-laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 38 x 28.7 cm (14.96 x 11.3 inch). Image size: 38 x 28.7 cm. (14.96 x 11.3 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light soiling, foxing and creasing. Origianl middle fold as issued. Paper edges chipped. Large printer’s crease at middle bottom. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PHILIPPINES FORT, FREDERICK HENRY, PRINCE OF ORANGE, FLANDERS, 1635, MILITARY HISTORY, SCHELDE | PCO-EXPO-426
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Used as an illustration in: I. Commelin, Frederick Hendrick van Nassauw prince van Orangien zyn leven en bedryf, Jodocus Janssonius, Amsterdam 1651, fol. 212.
Reference: FMH 1731.
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