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ROMEYN DE HOOGHE Zegen by Hoogstad op de Fransen en Beyersen.
Etching, 1704. 497x599 mm; 19 3/4x23 1/2 inches, small margins. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large etching.
This etching depicts the second battle of Höchstädt, also known as the battle of Blenheim, fought on August 13, 1704, between the Grand Alliance (Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, the Dutch Republic, England, Ireland, the Palatinate of the Rhine, Portugal, Savoy, Saxony, Scotland, Spain and Sweden) and France and her allies under Louis XIV, in the War of the Spanish Succession. The Grand Alliance troops were led by the Duke of Marlborough, marching south along the Rhine from the Low Countries, and Prince Eugene of Savoy, coming north from Austria (both of whom are represented by their portraits in the cartouche above) to meet the French alliance troops, under the command of Marshal Tallard, near the small Bavarian village of Blenheim. The Grand Alliance troops were the victors; France suffered over 38,000 casualties including the commander-in-chief, Marshal Tallard. Hollstein 251.
