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Maps of Luxembourg, Thionville, Montmédy and Damvillers, 1726
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Maps of Luxembourg, Thionville, Montmédy and Damvillers, 1726

Laurens Scherm · 1726 · etching; paper

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Sheet with four maps of the fortifications around the cities of Luxembourg, Thionville, Montmédy and Damvillers. Plate no. 268 in part XII of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortresses in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates of famous strong cities and fortresses: 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 in French.

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Credit linePlattegronden van Luxemburg, Thionville, Montmédy en Damvillers, 1726. 1726. Laurens Scherm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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