Live auction - Lot 122
How to siege a city in 6 simple steps
[French]
Representations des actions les plus considerables du siege d'une place.
Paris, Jacques Rigaud, 1732
Hammer price: €
150
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
6 etchings, c. 26,0 x 43,5 cm, laid paper, signed "J. Rigaud In. Sculp.", dated 1732, numb. 1-6, French text (marg. spots, marg. tears strengthened).
Good impressions with wide margins.
Large etchings with the 6 phases of the siege of a city: digging the trenches, blocking the ways out, attack from the covered path, breaching the bastions with miners, attack on the city centre and looting the city.
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