Slusa capta anno. 1588 

• Copper engraving 
• Topografie Nederland 

Copper engraving, maker unknown, after Jacques Courtois. Published in Rome in 1651, in: "F. Strada, De Bello belgico decades duae auctiores et correctiores cum figuris encis prodeunt a Famiano Strada Soc: Jesu Romano Moguntiae". Depiction of the siege and capture of Sluis by the army of Parma, on August 5, 1587. Overview of the battles surrounding the siege, the attempted relief and the capture of Sluis. In the foreground left ships of the Leicester fleet near the water closed by ships from Parma. The city in the distance. At the top of the title, in the caption the legend A-V in Latin. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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