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Abbildung der den 15. Augusti 1702 durch die Keÿsl. Siegreiche Kriegswaffen wider die Königl. frantzösische Kriegs-Völcker und deren Alyrten in Italien erfochtenen blutige Niderlag Ios. Frid. Leopold excudit
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Birds-eye view engraving shows battlefield with large numbers of troops fighting. In the foreground are soldiers on horseback with guns and swords, some fallen soldiers and horses are seen. In the middle and right foreground are depicted Prince Eugene of Saxony, General Adjutant Baron Charee and other officers on horseback. Smoke rises in numerous places around the battlefield. In the distance are hills. The August 15, 1702 battle took place near Luzzara, Italy during the War of Spanish Succession. Four lines of engraving below the top image provides a key to explain items numbered 1-15 in the battle scene print.
Title from ribbon caption at top of print.
Extensive German text in two columns below image includes list of the names of dead officers and numbers of dead and wounded.
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 170.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 170.
Original album; Purchase; 1950.
Formerly: PR13 CN1950:R01. Originals were housed in blind-tooled morocco album 11 x 17 in. Original binding in P&P Suppl. Archives.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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