Caption
The Siege of Middelburg, Siege of Middelburg, 1574, Series 6: Dutch Events, 1571-1576, print, album page, Siege of Middelburg by the rebels, January 1574. View of the besieged city and the surroundings. In the foreground the ships of the Geuzen, Fort Rammekens and Arnemuiden. With a caption of 6 lines in German. Numbered: 19., printmaker: Frans Hogenberg, Cologne, 1574 - 1576, North Rhine-Westphalia, paper, etching, height 215 mm x width 297 mm, siege, position war, Middelburg, Walcheren, Arnemuiden, Fort Rammekens, Period, 1574-01, A detailed bird’s-eye ink drawing of a circular walled town with concentric streets and buildings clustered around a central square and multiple churches, connected by a straight causeway or bridge leading out over water toward a busy harbor filled with a variety of sailing ships and small boats, with defensive bastions and guard towers at the town’s gate and along the waterway, surrounding marshy fields and farm plots with scattered cottages, figures walking along paths and working in the fields, a large rounded water body adjacent to the town, and numerous small details of rigging, masts, and rowboats in the foreground sea.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B29_412
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