Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)
Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War
Sluis, 1626
KAERTE VAN SLUYS, HET ZWIN, ENDE DE SCHANSEN AEN WEDER SYDEN
published 1627Engraving and etching; printed on paper; not mounted; gilt edges left, right and bottom | Scale: 1:33,000 approx. | RCIN 722020
A map of the new Spanish and Dutch fortifications and works around Sluis in 1626. Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648). Oriented with north-west to top.
Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652) (printer and publisher) [below key, bottom right:] Uÿtgegeven ende ghedruckt bÿ / Claes Ianß. Visscher. / ‘tjaer 1627.
Watermark: Indistinct
Condition: one crease line; brown discolouration and spotting; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this map in a different collection are present on the recto and verso
Scale: 1:33,000 approx. Scale bar: Scale van Duysent Roeden [114 mm=] 1000.
36.0 x 44.9 cm (image and neatline)
cropped (platemark)
40.4 x 54.7 cm (mount)
Printed title:
KAERTE VAN SLUYS, HET ZWIN, ENDE DE SCHANSEN AEN WEDER SYDEN. [in panel, across top of map]
Additional text:
[in cartouche, bottom right, a key, 1-13:] Verklaringe van de syde der H. H. / Staten der vereenichde Nederlande. [in cartouche, bottom left, a key, 1-6:] Verklaringe van de syde des / Konings van Spangien.
Annotations:
George III heading: Sluys 1626.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, black pencil:] 162[7?] (Verso) [left centre, red pencil:] I/148; [top left, black pencil, erased:] II/7.
George III catalogue entry:
Sluys A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Sluys with the adjacent Forts relative to the attempt on Sluys by the Spaniards in 1626: by C.J. Visscher, 1627.
Subject(s)
Sluis [L'Ecluse, Sluys], Zeeland, Netherlands (51°18'30"N 03°23'10"E)
Bibliographic reference(s)
T. Campbell, ‘Claes Jansz. Visscher : a hundred maps described’, Map Collectors’ Circle V, no. 46, London 1968, p. 23, no. 89
C. Koeman. Atlantes Neerlandici 3, Leiden 1967-1985, p. 159, Vis 1A, no. 24 and p. 178, no. 67
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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