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The Battle of Nördlingen

(French (Lorraine), about 1588–1660)
about 1634–40
Medium/TechniqueEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 37.3 × 48.2 cm (14 11/16 × 19 in.)
Platemark: 36.6 × 47.7 cm (14 7/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number1997.25
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEngraved in the plate, bottom left, "CC. [interlaced] Deruet fecit."; just above the cartouche, lower center, two interlaced C's, the cross of Lorraine, and "IIII"
ProvenanceColl.: Giuseppe Storck, Milan, 1799 (dealer; inscr. on verso); Prosper de Baudicour (no mark); Fame holds the arms of Lorraine; monogram of Charles IV above cartouche at lower center (Mariette, Notes manuscrites, vol. 2, fol. 28) Impression in Bibliothèque nationale is inscribed in pen identifying battle as the Battle of Nördingen 1643.