Caption
Construction of the Papenmuts fortress on Kompenwerdt, 1620, Own image of the village of the village in the Rhine between the villages of Berchem and Graen Rhindorp Anno 1620. on the 6th October Statischen kriegsvolck angefangener und numehr fast hoch auffgefuhrter Schantzen, Series 11: Varia Foreign Events, 1571-1631, print, album page, Series number, 391, 380?, Construction by the State army of the Papenmuts redoubt and other redoubts on the island of Kompenwerdt (Kemper Werth, Nonnenwerdt, Pfaffenmütz) near Bonn in the Rhine at the confluence of the Rhine and the Sieg between the villages of Rheindorf and Bergheim, October 6, 1620. With map of the area inset. With caption of 14 lines in German. Numbered in pen in the lower right: 391., inscription: '391', printmaker: workshop of Frans Hogenberg, Cologne, 1620 - 1622, North Rhine-Westphalia, paper, etching, height 217 mm x width 275 mm, fortifications, military engineering, Rhine, Bonn, Rheindorf, Papenmuts Redoubt, Bergheim, Period, 1620-10-06, An engraved bird’s-eye view shows a river scene with a star-shaped fortification on an island, surrounded by water and several small boats and larger sail and row vessels nearby; within the fort are tents, walls, bastions, cannons, and small groups of people depicted performing tasks, and on the riverbanks opposite the fort there are clustered buildings, trees, fields, pathways, and more small figures; a circular compass-like device floats on the water, and a rectangular inset map with many dots and lines is placed near the top right; the upper portion shows a wooded landscape with orchards, scattered trees, houses, a small square earthwork, and lines of figures moving along paths.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B46_016
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