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Wahrhaffte und kurtze Erzehlung dess beschehenen Miraculosen Einfalls welchen die Kayserl. commandierte in Cremona, an 1702 gethan und mithin den Duc de Villeroy, nebst vielen andern Franzosischen Marschallen und Officieren gefangen bekommen
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Print shows the surprise capture of French forces under the Marshal François de Neufville, Duc de Velleroi after a sneak attack On February 1, 1702, Prince Eugene of Savoy with the Austrian army of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor moved to Cremona and conducted a night attack that caught the French garrison by surprise.
Title from caption above image.
Lengthy explanatory text below print in German. Description key at bottom caption of image before explanatory text.
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 167.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 167.
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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