BRUGES BELGIUM 1735 CLAUDE DU BOSC ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP OF BRUGES.BELGIUM 1735 Condition: --not specified Ended:Jul 16, 2022 , 7:17AM Winning bid: US $62.70 BRUGES BELGIUM 1735 CLAUDE DU BOSC ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP Description Plan of Bruges one of the Principal Towns in Flanders. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual copper engraved map featuring an aerial plan of Bruges, Belgium, during the Siege of the city, at the time of the Spanish Succession War. The plan shows the city with his buildings, churches, streets, town walls and surrounding landscape. A simple title cartouche to the top left quadrant, a mileage scale and a numbered key adorn the sheet. The War of the Spanish Succession was triggered by the death of Charles II of Spain, who had no children. He left the Spanish throne to Philip of Anjou, a member of the French House of Bourbon, but the Archduke Charles of Austria also felt he had a claim to the throne. The Grand Alliance of Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Spain, declared war on France and Bourbon Spain in May 1702. Date: 1735 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 45,4 x 37,9 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Sheet uncolored. Goodmargins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Light white line in the basal part near the central fold due to the folding of the sheet during the pression of the incision. Small tear at the top near central folding affecting the sheet repaired on the verso. Sheet partally reinforced on the verso. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Writers: Claude Du Bosc (also spelled Dubosc and DuBosc; c. 1682–c. or after 1746) was a French engraver, publisher, and printseller who spent much of his career in London. Associated with French contemporaries such as the painter Antoine Watteau and the draftsman Hubert-Franзois Gravelot, Du Bosc belonged to the first wave of skilled engravers to arrive in London during the early 18th century, playing a major part in improving the standard of English printmaking of that era. Nothing known of Du Bosc's early life and work; it has been usually thought since the late-19th century that Du Bosc was born in France c. 1682, likely of Protestant background. In Roger Portalis and Henri Bйraldi's view, also from the late-19th century, Du Bosc studied engraving under Bernard Picart; an alternate point supposes him to be an associate of Gaspard Duchange. The earliest secure mentions of Du Bosc date to c. 1712–1713, when he produced two plates for Duchange's 1714 publication of Recueil de cent estampes reprйsentant diffйrentes nations du Levant after Jean Baptiste Vanmour. Also published by Duchange are two early prints by Du Bosc, Apollo Visiting Thetis and Leto and the Lycian Peasants, both after Jean Jouvenet. At some point c. 1712–1713, Du Bosc and Charles Dupuis moved to England, requested to assist Nicholas Dorigny in engraving the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court. As George Vertue's notebooks state, Du Bosc and Dupuis quarrelled with Dorigny and left his employ before the work was complete. Later in London, Du Bosc told Dupuis that he would stay for some time before moving to France; actually, Vertue recounts, Du Bosc had decided to settle in England, so he wanted Dupuis, a more capable and thus unlikely engraver to compete with, to depart alone to Paris. In February 1714, Du Bosc undertook with Louis Du Guernier to engrave a series of plates illustrative of the battles of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. He sent to Paris for two more engravers, Bernard Baron and Beauvais, to assist him on the work, which was completed in 1717. George Vertue states that towards the end of 1729 Baron and Du Bosc went over to Paris, Du Bosc wishing to arrange matters relating to the trade of print-selling, as he had now set up a shop, and that Vanloo then painted both their portraits, which they brought back to England. From Vertue's notebooks, it is known that in c. 1726, Du Bosc also sat for another portrait, painted by John Smibert. In 1733, Dubosc published an English edition of Bernard Picart's Religious Ceremonies of All Nations, some of the plates being engraved by himself; he also invited a younger artist Hubert-Franзois Gravelot for assistance.  His other prints included Apollo and Thetis and The Vengeance of Latona, after Jouvenet; some of the Labours of Hercules and The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, after Louis Cheron; The Head of Pompey brought to Cжsar, after Bernard Picart; The Continence of Scipio, after Poussin; The Temple of Solomon, after Parmentiиre; a portrait of Bonaventura Giffard, and numerous book illustrations, including numerous plates for Rapin's History of England (1743). By 1743, Du Bosc was said by Vertue to be an associate of the Rose and Crown Club; according to Timothy Clayton's 2004 entry published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Du Bosc was last mentioned in the May 1746 issue of the British Magazine, as a publisher for a plan of the Battle of Culloden. Later in the 18th century, Joseph Strutt described him as "an engraver of no great merit", adding that "his style of engraving is coarse and heavy; and the drawing of the naked parts of the figure in his plates is exceedingly defective"; Strutt's point has been long reiterated.