Author: Decker, Coenraet (c.1650 - 1685)
Title: [History print] Toght der Spanjaarden door't waater naa Duyvelandt en Schouwen, ca 1730.
Description: Spanish infantry columns wading to attack the island of Duyveland (Schouwen-Duiveland), under fire from Zeelanders in shallow-draught craft; retreating Spaniards in the foreground, observed by Don Louis de Requesens from the bottom right. Night scene with soldiers shooting from within the sea, among the waves. Signed on the bottom right: C. Decker fe.. ca. 1730.Luis de Zuniga y Requesens was een Spaans legeraanvoerder en landvoogd van de Habsburgse Nederlanden ten tijde van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Behalve landvoogd van de Nederlanden was hij Ridder van het Gulden Vlies, Gouverneur van Milaan, groot-commandeur van Castilie en commandeur van Malta. Etching and engraving on paper with margins; plate mark: 280 x 353 mm, total: 356 x 436 mm; folding crease in center; despite two repaired tears affecting the most external margins, in good condition. Muller 707.

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