La Impresa del Isola et Citta di Calis di spagna fatta alli 2 luglio 1596...
| Reference: | S40844 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1596 ca. |
| Zone: | Cádiz |
| Measures: | 220 x 165 mm |
€500.00
| Reference: | S40844 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1596 ca. |
| Zone: | Cádiz |
| Measures: | 220 x 165 mm |
€500.00
Description
Etching and engraving, 1596, signed in plate at bottom with the imprint Franco fecit.
This is a second-hand chart, created to document the first siege of Cadiz.
The capture of Cadiz (or first siege of Cadiz), was a naval battle fought in the Bay of Cadiz, Spain, from June 30 to July 15, 1596, as part of the Eighty Years' War. The English troops of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and a large Anglo-Dutch fleet commanded by Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, with the support of the United Dutch Provinces, moved against the Spanish city of Cadiz.
Due to the lack of organization of the Spanish, the Anglo-Dutch met little resistance. In order to deny the attackers their war booty, the Spaniards set fire to the ships of their fleet anchored in the Bay of Cadiz when they realized they had lost; the attacking forces landed, captured, looted and burned the city and took several hostages among the most distinguished citizens who were brought to England to await the payment of their ransom.
Bibliography
J. Halle, Newe Zeitungen: Relationen, Flugschriften, Flugblätter, Einblattdrucke von 1470 bis 1820 (1967): p. 158, no. 667.
Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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