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Maps of Armentieres, La Bassée, Menin and IJzendijke, ca. 1702
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Sheet with four plans of the fortifications around the places Armentieres, La Bassée, Menin and IJzendijke. Plate no. 80 in the print work consisting in total of 276 numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortifications in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the most part, these plates are copied from the 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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePlattegronden van Armentieres, La Bassée, Menin en IJzendijke, ca. 1702. 1702 - 1703. Laurens Scherm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.