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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 C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (publisher), [by mid-March] 1712 (Warsaw, BUW, St.Dr.), no 64

no 64 (96 of 135 in-Urus figures)
--no-address--
p. 295
Details
  • printing: impression
  • engraving
  • 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
Places
  • London production place : [by mid-March] 1712
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 ◼
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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)

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-06-13 08:59)

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-06-13 08:59)

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