Author: François Langlois (il Ciartres) (1588-1647), after Stefano della Bella (1610-1664)
Title: [Antique print, etching] Soldiers adunating; from set: 'Varie figure', published ca. 1645.
Description: Advance of an army on a plain; at centre, a commander on horseback surveys the military operation behind, with his retinue to left and a trumpeter to right. Paris c. 1645.Signed on bottom: 'Stef. della Bella florentinus fecit. / Ciartres excud. Cum Priv. Regis'; bright highly contrasted etching; on verso shred of collector's mark. Etching on paper, trimmed to plate mark; total: 108 x 158; state I/2; small repair on bottom right corner; De Vesme 175.

Keywords: Animals|Maritime & Military