File:Wenceslaus Hollar, Jacob van Werden - Plan of the city of Armentières.jpg
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English: Plan of the city of Armentières
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A plan of the city of Armentières, with a view of the city above, and a scene showing men on horseback, one presumably Archduke Leopold, under a large tree in the lower left corner, overlooking the city. 1647 Etching on four plates on four conjoined sheets of paper |
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| Date | 1648 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | etching print on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 70.8 cm (27.8 in); width: 12.4 cm (4.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Inscriptions | Lettered above the view with a dedication to Archduke Leopold, who succesfully laid seige to the town for the king of France "A Son Altez Serenissime, Monseigneur Le sort ayant marque la Ville d'Armentiers pour le prelude et auantcourrier de voz victoires ... Theodor de Crepu et Iacques van Werden, Ingeniaires ... le premier de Iung. 1647", and labels for parts of the city "C. des Capucins" etc.; the plan lettered with a key giving the lay-out of the seige, and "Plan de la Ville d'Armentier en Flandre Assiege ... le XI et rendue le XXX de May 1647 ..."; lettered in the lower right corner "Iacques van Werden Archier de Corps D.S.Mste, delin. Wenceslaus Hollar nob. Bohem, fecit Aqua forti Antwerpiae 1648.". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Made by Wenceslaus Hollar after a drawing by Jacob van Werden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Q-6-120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 15:32, 29 May 2020 |  | 2,500 × 2,107 (933 KB) | Fouquiher (talk | contribs) | {{Artwork |Artist = {{Creator:Wenceslaus Hollar}} {{creator:Jacob van Werden|After}} |Title = {{en|1=''Plan of the city of Armentières''}} |Inscriptions = Lettered above the view with a dedication to Archduke Leopold, who succesfully laid seige to the town for the king of France "A Son Altez Serenissime, Monseigneur Le sort ayant marque la Ville d'Armentiers pour le prelude et auantcourrier de voz victoires ... Theodor de Crepu et Iacques van Werden, Ingeniaires ... le premier de Iung. 1647",... |
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