This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

Visit the Royal Collection

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

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

    MELCHIOR TAVERNIER (1594-1665)

    Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1629 ('s-Hertogenbosch [Bois-Le-Duc], North Brabant, Netherlands) 51°41'57"N 05°18'15"E

    published 1629

    Letterpress text; printed on paper; laid down on paper then mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges left, bottom and right | 33.8 x 42.4 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 722042.b

    Printed sheet of text accompanying the view of the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1629, at RCIN 722042.a. Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648).

    • Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (publisher) [bottom right:] A PARIS, / Chez MELCHIOR TAVERNIER, Graueur & Imprimeur / du Roy pour les Tailles douces, demeurant en l’Isle du / Palais, sur le Quay qui regarde la Megisserie / à l’Espic d’Or. 1629.

      Subject(s)

      Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584-1647)

    • Watermark: None visible

      Condition: one fold line common to print and mount; text torn and repaired by being laid down on paper before being mounted; offsetting from the ink framing lines from a smaller mount on the verso

    • 33.8 x 42.4 cm (image and sheet)

      40.5 x 54.8 cm (mount)

    • Printed title:

      DESCRIPTION ET PLAN VERITABLE DV SIEGE DE LA VILLE DE / Bolduc, assiegee par Messieurs les Estats, sous la conduite du Prince d’Orange, commancé le premier iour de May 1629.

      Annotations:

      George III heading: Bois le Duc 1629.

      Other annotations: (Recto) [top left of text, ink, possibly contemporary with dal Pozzo:] Ā. (Verso) [left of centre, black pencil:] II/34; [left of centre, red pencil, crossed out in black pencil:] 1/17;. [top left, black pencil:] II/34; [bottom right, black pencil, illegible].

      George III catalogue entry:

      Bois le Duc Plan et Siege de la Ville de Bolduc par Henry Frederic Prince d’Aurange, commencé le 1.er de May 1629: avec une Description, chez Tavernier, 1629.

    • Subject(s)

      's-Hertogenbosch [Bois-Le-Duc], North Brabant, Netherlands (51°41'57"N 05°18'15"E)

    • 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. 2892

    PreviousNext

    Page revisions

    • 23 May 2024

      Current version

    PreviousNext