[PEETERS, Jacob. Korte Beschryvinghe, Ende Aen-Wysinghe der Plaetsen in desfn Boeck, met hunnen teghenwoordigen Standt, pertinentelijck uytghebeldt, in Oostenryck, Antwerp, 1686.]
Flemish engraver and book-seller Jacob Peeters (1637-1695) was descended from a family of artists. He kept a shop in Antwerp, where he “sold every kind of prints and engravings, small and larger geographical maps, drawn in ink, coloured, as well as of a larger size...” Peeters is known mainly for his “World Atlas”, published in 1692.
This work shows firstly scenes from the siege of Vienna (1683) and portraits of Western European rulers. These are followed by cities, ports and locations related to the Venetian-Ottoman wars of the last quarter of the 17th century. There are plates showing Austria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Ionian sea as well as Istanbul, the Peloponnese, Crete, Malta, the northern coast of Africa, the eastern Aegean, Asia Minor, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
The album forms part of a series of dithyrambic publications, which exalted the brilliant victories of the Venetians on the Ottomans. Similar books were published by the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, which had been founded by Vincenzo Coronelli.
The plates of the edition were based on drawings by Jacob Peeters' brother, Johannes or Jan Peeters (1625-1677), who made several views of cities, later etched by Merian. Johannes was a pupil of their older brother, Bonaventura Peeters, also a very well-known painter who specialized in seascapes.
Most of the plates were etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695), a well-known books merchant and engraving master. The description of each city and subject is given at the beginning of the edition, while each copy of the work includes a different number of plates.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
Subjects (124)
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Hungarian inhabitants of Transylvania surrender to the Ottomans after their failed revolt of 1661.
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The Ottoman army camps outside Vienna, during the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683.
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Battle of Vienna, 1683: Polish and Austrian regiments of the Holy League attack the Ottoman army.
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Portrait of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha, prime mover of the Second Siege of Vienna.
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Portrait of Emerich Tekkesi, head of the Protestants of the Austrian territories of Hungary.
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View of Vienna and Leopoldstadt island (today part of the city of Vienna).
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View of Bratislava (Pressburg), Slovakia. On the hilltop, Devin Castle.
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View of the castle of Buda. Battle between the Ottoman and Habsburg armies.
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Plan of the walls of the castle of Bratislava. Plan of the land walls of Buda.
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View of Nitra castle, Slovakia. At the centre, the cathedral of St. Emmeram.
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View of Vráble castle, Slovakia. View of Güssing castle, Austria.
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View of Szádvár castle, Hungary. View of Satu Mare, Romania.
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View of Košice, Slovakia. In the foreground, battle between the Ottoman and Austrian armies.
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The fortress of Saint Job (?) besieged by the Habsburg army, 1686.
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View of Pápa, Hungary. In the foreground, Ottomans fend off the Habsburg army.
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View of Pannonhalma castle, Hungary. In the foreground, Ottomans in retreat.
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View of Tata castle, Hungary. In the foreground, Ottomans in retreat.
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View of Nagykanizas, Hungary. In the foreground, forces of the Holy Leagues attack the Ottoman army.
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View of Sisak castle, Croatia. View of the medieval fortress of Petrinja, Croatia.
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Plan of the medieval castle of Petrinja, Croatia. Plan of the Ottoman castle of Petrinja, Croatia.
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View of the castle of Koroni. In the background, on the right, the castle of Kalamata.
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View of Ceuta, Spanish exclave and today autonomous city at the coast of Northern Africa.
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View of Mar Elias monastery on the route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
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