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Maps of Seurre, Gray and Besançon, ca. 1702
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Maps of Seurre, Gray and Besançon, ca. 1702

Laurens Scherm · 1702 - 1703 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Leaf with three plans of the fortifications around the cities of Seurre, Gray, and Besançon, and a view of Besançon. Plate no. 49 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. Titles and inscriptions on the plate in French.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit linePlattegronden van Seurre, Gray en Besançon, ca. 1702. 1702 - 1703. Laurens Scherm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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