In 1683 the town of vienna was besieged for two months by a great turkish army. The siege was followed daily in the dutch papers, the papers using correspondants who stayed near the battle fields. Newspaper articles were clarified by separate maps and news prints to provide readers with actual information about the battle sites. For the publisher nicolaes visscher ii (1649-1702), engraver romeyn de hooghe (1645-1708) prepared a series of prints in which the complete history of the siege is being depicted. De hooghe did not attend the siege himself but used drawings made by jacob peeters from antwerp. Object Type: print. Date: 1683. Place of creation: Netherlands. Dimensions: 46 x 57 cm. Medium: copper engraving print. Collection: Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B10 050-De belegering van Wenen door de Turken in 1683
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