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Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)

Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years War

HANS VAN DER HELLEN (ACTIVE 1614-64)

Naval engagement at Havana and Bahía de Matanzas, 1628 (Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba) 23°07'58"N 82°22'58"W; (Bahía de Matanzas, Puerto de Matanzas, Cuba) 23°04ʹ27ʺN 81°30ʹ22ʺW

published 1628

Two columns of letterpress text on paper, each comprising two pieces pasted together; mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges top, right and bottom | 50.7 x 15.8 cm (image and sheet of left column) | RCIN 722036.b

Accompanying letterpress text to RCIN 722036.a. Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648).

  • Hans van der Hellen (active 1614-64) (printer)

    Zacharias Roman (active 1620-62) (publisher and print seller) [bottom right:] TOT MIDDELBVRGH / Gedruckt by Hans vander Hellen. / Voor Zacharias Roman, Kunst, ende Boeck-vercooper, / woonende inde Kerck-strate, inden vergulden Bybel, / ANNO 1628.

    Subject(s)

    Navy-Spain
    Navy-Netherlands
  • Watermark: Jug on base, the letters M L O within, crown above. Mount: 5-pointed crown.

    Condition: one fold line

  • 50.7 x 15.8 cm (image and sheet of left column) 

    51.0 x 15.9 cm (image and sheet of right column)

    53.7 x 40.9 cm (mount)

  • Printed title:

    Corte beschrijvinghe vande treffelijcke / overwinninghe van twee Spaensche Gallioenen comende uyt de / Honduras na de Havane, by eenighe Schepen vande West-Indische Compagnie / onder t’beleydt vanden vromen Helt Pieter Adriaenssen van Vlissingen, uytgevaren / van Middelburgh in Zeelandt, als Admirael Hans Aboudt, als Vice-Admirael / uyt-gevaren van Amsterdam, ende Cornelis Coudeen, als Schout bynacht uyt- / gevaren van Dordrecht, vercregen den eersten Augusti deses Jaers 1628.

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Naval Engagement off the Havana, 1 August 1628.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [each of the four original separate pieces of text is annotated in brown ink, in a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand:] [c]3, C4, C5, C6. [It is possible that the two pieces of title text on RCIN 722036.a were originally annoted as c1 and c2, and that the annotation has been cropped; [bottom right, on mount, black pencil:] 1628.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Naval Engagement Afbeeldinghe vande veroveringhe der twee Gallioenen vande Honduras by de Havana door de Schepen vande West-Indische Compagnie onder het beleyt vanden Admirael Pieter Adriaenssen, op den 1.ten Augusti 1628: door David vanden Bremden, gedruckt by C.I. Visscher. 2 tab. (with a Description, 1628) [The same entry appears under the heading Havana]

  • Subject(s)

    Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba (23°07'58"N 82°22'58"W)

    Bahía de Matanzas, Puerto de Matanzas, Cuba (23°04ʹ27ʺN 81°30ʹ22ʺW)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2879, 2880

Page revisions

  • 23 May 2024