[Original etching and engraving/ets en gravure, 80 year old war] ´t Veroveren van Den Briel, op den eersten april des jaars 1572, 1 p.

Luyken, Jan (1649-1712)

[Original etching and engraving/ets en gravure, 80 year old war] ´t Veroveren van Den Briel, op den eersten april des jaars 1572, 1 p.

Name: [Original etching and engraving/ets en gravure, 80 year old war] ´t Veroveren van Den Briel, op den eersten april des jaars 1572, 1 p.
SKU: 59621
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The Capture of Brielle by the Sea Beggars, (or Watergeuzen), on 1 April 1572 marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years’ War. In the picture the Sea Beggars are bursting the door of the city, and are joined by other coming from the sea. This print was used as illustration for J. le Clerc’s:’Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, sedert den aanvang van die Republyk tot op den Vrede van Utrecht in ‘t jaar 1713 en het Tractaat van Barriere in ‘t jaar 1715 gesloten, Z. Chatelain’, Amsterdam 1730, in three volumes. As reported above on the left, this illusration appeared in in he first volume;Tom. I, No. 5.; Lettered on he bottom:´t Veroveren van Den Briel, op den eersten april des jaars 1572.

inname den Briel – 1572 – watergeuzen – Brielle – spaanse garnizoen – Tachtigjarige oorlog – Geuzen – Alva – Wilem van Oranje

SKU: 59621

Etching and engraving, broad margins; platemark: 270 x 347; total: 343 x 403 mm; very good conditions.

€ 108,90 (€ 90,00 ex. btw)

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