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Seeschlacht bei den Dardanellen Ao. 1656
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Print shows a birds eye view of ships in a harbor and additional ships in the foreground. The Venetians alligned with the Knights Hospitalier from Malta were victorious over Ottoman forces in a two-day battle of the Dardanelles in Turkey, June 26-27, 1656. Details and locations identified A-D. Instruction key wanting.
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Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 229.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 229.
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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