Wahre Abbildung der Mächtigen Seeschlacht so sich zwischen den Hispanischen und Holländischen Schlffarmata in den Duynen den 21. Octobris 1639 zu..

Title

Wahre Abbildung der Mächtigen Seeschlacht so sich zwischen den Hispanischen und Holländischen Schlffarmata in den Duynen den 21. Octobris 1639 zu..

Description

The naval Battle of the Downs took place on 21 October 1639 , during the Eighty Years' War, and was a decisive defeat of the Spanish, commanded by Admiral Antonio de Oquendo, by the United Provinces, commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp.

ca. 1630

Artist

Merian (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian (1593 – 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.