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Jacobus Harrewijn - Beleg van Oostende, 1706

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Jacobus Harrewijn - Beleg van Oostende, 1706

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Kaart van het beleg van Oostende door de Geallieerden onder Hendrik van Nassau, heer van Ouwerkerk, belegerd vanaf 17 juni, ingenomen op 6 juli 1706. Linksboven een cartouche met de titel en de legenda 1-57 in het Frans. Linksonder een cartouche met een lijst van de regimenten die deel namen aan de belegering met bovenin het wapen van Hendrik van Nassau, heer van Ouwekerk en rechtsonderin een schaalstok: Eschelle de 300 Toises.

A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.

Jacobus Harrewijn (1660, Amsterdam – 1727, Brussels) was an engraver active in the Southern Netherlands. Married in 1682 in Amsterdam, he joined the Antwerp Guild in 1688. He remarried in 1689 in Deurne and is known to have worked in Brussels from 1695 to 1714.

Since the 16th century, Dutch artists used prints to promote their art and access a wider public than what was possible for a single painting. During the Dutch Golden Age, (17th century), Dutch artists perfected the techniques of etching and engraving. The rise of printmaking in the Netherlands is attributed to a connection between Italy and the Netherlands during the 1500s. Together with the large-scale production, it allowed the expanding reach of an artist’s work. Prints were popular as collecting items, so publishing houses commissioned artists to create a drawing or a painting, and then print the work for collectors - similar to what occurs at publishing houses today. Dutch printmaking evolved rapidly, so in 16th-century etching prevailed over the engraving. Major Dutch Printmaker Artists: Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Anna Maria van Schurman, Adriaen Jansz van Ostade, Ferdinand Bol.

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