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Maps of Limbourg, Cambrai, Condé and Philippeville, 1726
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Maps of Limbourg, Cambrai, Condé and Philippeville, 1726

Laurens Scherm · 1726 · etching; engraving; paper

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Sheet with four plans of the fortifications around the cities of Limbourg, Cambrai (Kamerijk), Condé, and Philippeville. Plate no. 276 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 the 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 and inscriptions in French.

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Credit linePlattegronden van Limbourg, Cambrai, Condé en Philippeville, 1726. 1726. Laurens Scherm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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