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Encampment Before Schenk Fort

Encampment Before Schenk Fort

1637 - 1714

Sébastien Le Clerc the Elder

French, Lorrainese

In the foreground two men are cooking over campfires; a third, sitting at the left, is rearranging his lace ruff; a group of bewigged officers are gathered in elegant poses about a table in a tent at the right; in the center middle distance a troop of soldiers heralded by trumpeters marches toward the walled city on a river peninsula in the upper middle distance; various cities and towns at the upper left border the broad river.

Brown ink and graphite with brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with graphite

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