Author: TROMP.- L.S.V.C. [=J.SIX van Chandelier].- Lijkdicht.- 1653.-
Title: Rouw / Over de schierlijke dood van den onverwonnen / Zee - Held / Marten Harpertsen Tromp , / Ridder, L. Admiraal van Holland en Zeeland. /
Description: No place, No publ. No date [1653]. Plano. Meas. appr. 28 x 33 cm. Evidence of double folding. A small tear below woodc. initial. Left top margin w. frayed edge over 17 cm. A vague brown spot to mid center left and righ of sheet. Top margin a bit short, partially cutting into the letterpress word 'Rouw', some loss of the printed surface. Numerous funeral orations, eulogies and funeral poems were published after the death of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp in the battle at Scheveningen, August 10 1653. These original folio sheets belong to the rare Tromp ephemera. Among the poets known to have dedicated a poem to Tromp's life and herioc deeds, we find D. Questiers, ISVC [J. Six van Chandelier], P. Dubbels, Daniel Jonktys, T. Dodeur, J. Terinck. The funerary poetry on plano sheets lamenting Tromp's death in battle are mostly unrecorded or recorded in ONLY 1 copy [University Library Leiden and Wolffenbüttel]. On Johan Six van Chandelier [1620 - 1695] see Jan Koopmans in 'De Nieuwe Taalgids', jrg. 9 (1915), pp. 25 - 48. NNBW vol. X, c. 924:

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