Geschichtsblätter: 1595 Spanish retaking Huy
by
Frans Hogenberg
Detail
Date: 31 March 1595
Dimensions (not including margins): 23,3 x 30 cm
Condition: Good. Strong paper and wide margins. Centre fold as published. Four small holes in the German text.
Condition rating: A
Verso: blank
Text at bottom: in German
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Hogenberg shows the Spanish troops recapturing Huy on 31 March 1595
Huy was actually considered to be a neutral city. However, on 5 February 1595 rebel troops under Charles de Héraugière took the city and the citadel. ! However, they did not straighten the weakened walls. Consequently, the Spanish under La Motte were able to recapture the city and the citadel on 31 March 1595.
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Hogenberg and his Geschichtsblätter (news prints)
The publication of news prints was already in vogue in the 16th century before Hogenberg published his well-known Geschichtsblätter. In printing houses in Rome (Lafreri) and Venice (Gastaldi), the cartographers also published these such news prints. The preferred topics were then-current political or military images. Publishing news prints actually went hand in hand with the publication of maps.
Hogenbergs Geschichtsblätter are a collection of several hundred history papers that Frans Hogenberg and his son Abraham published between 1569 and 1637. The central theme is the Eighty Years’ War (1568 – 1648), but some views also show the French Religious Wars (1559 – 1573) and the English dynastic disputes. The Geschichtsblätter illustrate in an almost photographic way an act of war with a German caption at the bottom, sometimes in verse form, dating the fact. They provide both a visual and a narrative picture of the evolution of the war. The different engraving styles show that several engravers contributed to this work in the studio of the Hogenberg family. The Geschichtsblätter were sold loose-leaf and were popular.
Several editions of the Geschichtsblätter are known with varying numbers of pages and varying comments.