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A view of Comines, 1658 (Comines [Commines], Hauts-de-France [before 1/1/2016 Nord-Pas-de-Calais], France) 50°45ʹ41ʺN 03°00ʹ38ʺE 1658 or later, or 1694
Etching; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B); gilt edge right | 16.4 x 50.7 cm (image and sheet) (image) | RCIN 723115
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A view of the French assault on Comines in 1658, commanded by Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne vicomte de Turenne (1611-75) in which Claude Lamoral, 3me prince de Ligne (1618-79), a nobleman of the Spanish Netherlands in the service of Philip IV of Spain, was defeated. Franco-Spanish War (1636-59). Oriented with south-east to top.
This view was one of the plates of Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu's Les Glorieuses Conquetes de Louis le Grand which was published by his niece, Reine de Beaulieu, in 1694. An example of the view, with borders and an upper portrait pasted to it, is at RCIN 723027.1.af
Additional text: [bottom, below view, a key, A-I, K-M and a note on the geographical position of Comines.]
Condition: one fold line to view and one fold line to the mount, not coincident; brown discolouration for the paste of the mount of an item which was placed below the view in a different collection; slight brown discolouration to top and right edges. Verso: remains of old guard along top edge; surface discolouration.Provenance
From the collection of Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-89) who inherited Cassiano dal Pozzo's collection and added to it; sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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Medium and techniques
Etching; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B); gilt edge right
Measurements
16.4 x 50.7 cm (image and sheet) (image)
cropped (platemark)
14.8 x 50.7 cm (neatline)
20.4 x 52.1 cm (mount)
Markings
watermark: View: none visible. Mount: man holding a cross in a shield?
annotation: Old heading: The Prince de Ligne defeated by Marshal Turenne near Comines 19 Sep.r 1658. Other annotations: (Recto) [top corner of mount, a date: ‘1647’?; [bottom corner, black pencil, cropped: a date?]; [top right, black pencil, illegible]. (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] III/136.
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COMMINES [below banderole:] en Flandre