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Louis de Châtillon (etcher and engraver)
Sébastien Le Clerc the elder (draughtsman and engraver)
Cambray (1683-1687)
etching and engraving
42.2 × 36.0 cm (image) 43.7 × 37.5 cm (plate) 65.2 × 50.0 cm irreg. (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Cambray
(1683-1687)
plate from the Les grandes conquêtes du Roi (The grand conquests of the King) series 1683–94
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
42.2 × 36.0 cm (image) 43.7 × 37.5 cm (plate) 65.2 × 50.0 cm irreg. (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
IFF 74
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: CAMBRAY (in an oval)
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Lud. de Chastillon fecit. / Le Clerc f.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: CAMBRAY (in a scroll) / Capitale du Camresis, situeé sur l’Escaut aux portes de la Picardie, d’oùelle tiroit de / grandes contributions. Cette Ville avoit fait seule plus de mal aux François, que tout le reste des païs / bas ensemble; souvent attaque”e jamais prise, aussi les Rois d’ Espangne setouent plû ala forti- / fier. toutes fois le Roy l’ayant assiege”e en personne, le Gouverneur fut biento st oblige deseren- / fermer dans la Citadelle qui passouit alor pour le chef d’oeuvre de l’Architecture militaire, ce fut / lá qui’il fit sa plus brave resistance, et il n’en voulut point sortir qu’il n’eut vû la breche ouver- / te et tous ses bastions soudroyeth. Elle se rendid le 17 e (. under e) Avril 1677.
printed in ink l.l.: Le Clerc f.
Accession Number
p.183.164-1
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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