Views of Munkács, Kanischa and Sziget, ca. 1702

Sheet with four views of Eastern European towns. Plan and view of the fortress of Munkács or Mongats (Mukachevo) in Upper Hungary, present-day Ukraine, and two views of Kanischa and Sziget. Plate no. 113 in the print work consisting in total of 276 numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortresses in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War. Title and inscriptions on the plate in French.