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Ware Afbeeldinghe van De Starcke Stadt Rochelle met alle syn Fortificatien ende Nieuwe wercken. Mitsgader des Konings Schansen, Redouten en Retrenctmentem romtom tot Belegeringe der selver Stadt. Geordinnert end afgeteykent Door den Heer de Siette, Ingenieur des Konings van Vrankcryck ‘t Jaer 1627
- Author: SIETTE, René de
- Publication place: Amsterdam
- Publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher
- Publication date: 1628.
- Physical description: Etched map with text.
- Dimensions: 295 by 410mm. (11.5 by 16.25 inches).
- Inventory reference: 11379
Notes
Visscher’s map is based on the rare Paris printing, ‘Plan Veritable de la Ville de la Rochelle et les nouuelles fortifications qu’ils ont faictes au deuan d’Icelles. Auecq le dessinq de lattacquement faict et Commencé par sa Majesté le Premier Iour de Septembre 1627 … Obserué Par le Sr de Siette…’, published by Melchior Tavernier.
This example has an Italian annotation against Point de Coreille.
Bibliography
- Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vol. XXXVIII Claes Jans Visscher, map 61, listing four exemplars, two with text, to which can be added two exemplars in the British Library, one with text in a different setting
- unrecorded in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici
- Simon, Claesz. Jansz. Visscher, map 264
- unrecorded in Campbell, C.J. Visscher, a hundred maps described.
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