Plans of Wesel, Burick, Rees and Schenckenschans, c. 1702

Sheet with four plans of the defensive works of Wesel, Burick, Rees and Schenckenschans. Plate no. 23 in the print work consisting in total of 276 numbered plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the most part, 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 in French.