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Georg Cöler: Deutsch: Schottische Soldaten im Dienste Gustav Adolphs English: Scottish soldiers in service of Gustavus Adolphus   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Georg Cöler  (1600–1638)  wikidata:Q50826926
 
Alternative names
G.C.; Georg Köler; Georg Coler
Description drawer and engraver
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 1638 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1627 Edit this at Wikidata
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Nuremberg; Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q50826926
Title
Deutsch: Schottische Soldaten im Dienste Gustav Adolphs
English: Scottish soldiers in service of Gustavus Adolphus
Description
Broadside shows four "Irish" (Scottish) soldiers in kilts with battle scene in the background. 800 Scottish troops arrived to battle in Stettin (Szczecin) on the side of Swedish troops in 1631.
Depicted people
English: presumably soldiers from the regiment of Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay
Depicted place Szczecin, Duchy of Pomerania
Date 1631
date QS:P571,+1631-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving on paper
Dimensions height: 28 cm (11 in); width: 39 cm (15.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,28U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,39U174728
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Current location
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Accession number
2003689061; LOT 14117, no. 39 (H) [P&P]
Place of creation Nuremberg
Object history collection of Hauslab, Franz (1798-1883); British Museum
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In solchem Habit Gehen die 800 In Stettin angekommen Irrländer oder Irren.
[In such an outfit the 800 Irishman or Irish are walking that have arrived in Stettin.]
Source/Photographer scan of a reprint in possession of the New York Public Library
Other versions File:Scottish soldiers in service of Gustavus Adolphus, 1631-cropped-.jpg

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