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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Brick Tower and Musculus at the Siege of Massilia

In Gaius Iulius Caesar, The commentaries of Caesar, William Duncan (translator), London: Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson (printer), 1753, No 63

No 63 (63 of 86 in-Urus figures)
No 62
No 64
Details
  • printing: impression
  • etching
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Andries van Buysen (printmaker), Brick Tower and Musculus at the Siege of Massilia (Tonson)
Actors
  • Andries van Buysen (ca 1674 - 1747 / fl. 1698 - 1747) printmaker : 1703 - 1712
  • Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson printer : 1753
Places
  • London production place : 1753
Design

Andries van Buysen (printmaker), Brick Tower and Musculus at the Siege of Massilia (Tonson) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii in folio (Tonson 1712) ◼

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Massilia, Caesar's Musculus and Brick Tower (Societas Albritiana) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii (Societas Albritiana 1737) ◼
  • ⇤ Gérard Edelinck (printmaker), Siege Machines (Coignard) Part of Set of illustration for Perrault's Vitruvius ◼
Expert view
Iconography description
  • Musculus (Iconclass: 45K231)
  • Siege of Massilia (49 BCE)
Narrative

Siege of Massilia (De bello civili, I, 34-36, 56-58 and II, 1-16)

Functional context

Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

References
Web resources
  • digital copy - microfilm (InternetArchive)
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Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-01-05 15:51)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-08-31 05:05)

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