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[Battle of Kinburn, 1787]
[Battle of Kinburn, 1787] Vue d'Oczakow et de Kinburn, à l'embouchure du Dnieper dans la Mer noire [....] [parallel text in German]
Fr. Casanova ad Natur pinxit C: Schutz delin:
Chr: a Mechel excudit Basilae 1788.
Aquatint with fine hand-colouring, very scare & fine; sheet 365 x 480mm (14½ x 19"). Glued to backing sheet at edges; glue stains at bottom centre in margin.
The Battle of Kinburn, fought on 1 October 1787 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92. The fortress of Kinburn was situated opposite Ochakov (modern Ukraine) at the Dnieper river delta. Ottoman forces sought to secure a base from which to attack Ochakov, but they were defeated by the Russian forces of Alexander Suvorov. From 'Tableaux et plans des evénements les plus mémorables, de la guerre actuelle des autrichiens et des russes contre les turcs' by Chrétien de Méchel (1790).
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[Siege of Novi fortress, 1788]
[Siege of Novi fortress, 1788] Vue de la Forteress de Novi sur l'Unna, dans la Croatie Turque [...] [parallel text in German]
Nach der Natur gezeichnet durch den K.K. Hauptmann J Dedovics von G.al Stab und ausgefuehrt von Carl Schuetz 1789
Herausgegeben durch Chr: von Mechel in Basel. Cum privilegio.
Aquatint with hand-colouring, watermark Honig; sheet 365 x 480mm (14½ x 19").
The siege of Novi fortress, Croatia, while under siege by Marshal Loudon and his army during the Austro-Turkish War (1788-91). From 'Tableaux et plans des evénements les plus mémorables, de la guerre actuelle des autrichiens et des russes contre les turcs' by Chrétien de Méchel (1790).
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[Vienna] Ansicht des Platzes und der Kirche von S.t Peter.
[Vienna] Ansicht des Platzes und der Kirche von S.t Peter. Vue de la Place et de L'Eglise de S. Pierre.
dessiné et gravé d'apres nature par C. Shütz.
Cum Priv. S.C.M. [Vienna: Artaria c.1805.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 335 x 440mm (13¼ x 17¼").
A view of the Peterskirche, a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church, built 1701-33. It is now run by Opus Dei.
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[Vienna] Der Hohemarkt.
[Vienna] Der Hohemarkt. Vue du Haut Marché.
Nach der Natur gezeichnet und gestochen von C. Shütz.
Wein, bey Artaria u. Comp. [n.d., c.1793.]
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 415 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"). Trimmed within plate, glue stains at corners, repaired tear top left. Central crease.
A view of Hoher Markt Square, Vienna, with the 'Vermählungsbrunnen' (The Marriage Fountain), a baroque, white marble temple based on a drawing by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, consecrated 1732.
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