Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
La Rochelle, 1627-8 (La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France) 46°10ʹ00ʺN 01°09ʹ00ʺW
published 1631Letterpress text printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type A); gilt edges left, bottom and right | 36.5 x 44.1 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 722028.b
The accompanying text to RCIN 722028.a is mounted on two sheets of paper. Each sheet of text has three columns.
Jérôme Bachot (1596-?1635) (surveyor)
Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) (mapseller and print seller)
Antoine Hérault: Paris (active 1641 (mapseller and print seller)
Subject(s)
Navy-FranceRoyal NavyWatermark: Text: bunch of grapes; mount: none.
Condition: one fold line; the mount is cropped along top edge.
36.5 x 44.1 cm (image and sheet)
40.9 x 54.7 cm (mount)
Printed title:
DESCRIPTION ET ANNOTATIONS DE / L’ARMEE NAVALLE DE SA MAIESTE’ [ω, π, aa-qq; followed by another key, rr- Qq:] ENSVIT LES VAISSEAVX DE L’ARMEE / du Roy … [followed by a verse:] TOMBEAV DE LA ROCHELLE. [text begins in the first column with a continuation of the key, at number 62; it is followed by further keys]
Annotations:
George III heading: II/28-b Rochelle 1628.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Rochelle Plan du Siege et Blocquement de la Ville de Rochelle ensemble la Carte particuliere et topographique des Environs d’icelle: avec un Profil de la Rochelle: par le S.r H. Bachot Ing.r 1629, 30. 6 feuilles. avec une Description, chez Tavernier, 1631.
Subject(s)
La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France (46°10ʹ00ʺN 01°09ʹ00ʺW)
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. 2870
Page revisions
23 May 2024
Current version