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Siege of Saint Omer

Maker

(etcher)
1610-1664

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Siege of Saint Omer

Date of Production

1638

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 37.8 cm
Width: 46.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.24

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

The Franco-Flemish town of Saint Omer was besieged for nearly two months during the Thirty Years’ War in 1638. This siege is one of several commemorated in prints intended for a French market by Stefano della Bella. Since the siege took place before della Bella’s arrival in France, he must have worked from a map supplied by someone else; an explanatory key at left details the locations of various events of the siege. At lower right, Prince Tommaso of Savoy and his officers study a plan of the area.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : titled : printed : within image & recto : on curtain left : A S. OMER.....

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & recto : : stef della bella, fe. / 1638

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