1928A
Victory of Lepanto
Victory of Lepanto
- Artist
- Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708)
- Title
- Victory of Lepanto
- Date
- 1681
- Medium
- Etching after a design by Juan de Ledesma. Loose leaf (¿artist proof?). Folded in half across the vertical, this etching was bound between pages 439 and 440 of Famiano Estrada S.J. (1572-1649) Primera Decada de las Guerras de Flandes. Colonia: unidentified publisher, 1681. This is the Spanish translation, by Melchor de Novar S.J. (1629-1707), of De bello belgico. Decas prima, first published in Rome in 1632. There is a 1682 edition of the Estrada work, ammended by Alonso de Bonne-Maison, that includes portraits of Charles V, Phillip II, Alessandro Farnese, Marguerite of Parma, The Duke of Alba, Don Luis de Requesens, and Don Juan de Austria.
- Photo Source
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional de España
- Item
- 1928A
