Rare-Antique Print-1579 SIEGE OF MAASTRICHT-Miele-Strada-1647

Description

Siege of Maastricht in 1579 by the Duke of Parma / Spanish.

Made by J. Miele after Strada.

Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23.1 x 39 cm (9.09 x 15.35 inch). Image size: 23.1 x 39 cm. (9.09 x 15.35 inch).

Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

1580 SIEGE OF MAASTRICHT | PCO-A17-34

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: Plate used in Famiani Stradae Romani e Societate Iesv De bello Belgico. Romae : Ex typographia haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1647 (dl. 2), p. 56.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch 16, FMH 807-a.

Provenance: From the collection of Friedrich August II of Saxonia, with his collector’s mark (Lugt 971) on recto.

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Biography engraver: Miele, J. (1599-1663).