Aigendliche delineation welcher Gestalt die Schwedische den Weixel tam dvrch stochen vnd den ganzen Dantziger Werder vberschwimbt samt der ganzen Sitvation mid vmb ligenden Örter

Print shows map of the Vistula River estuary in Poland and the river as it branches into two streams before emptying into the Ost See [Baltic]. Breaks in the dike along the river are depicted as is the floodplain "Grosse Mariennbvrg Werder" and a stand of forest between the river and the Baltic "Dantziger Walt bis an Stvthoff" [Danzig forest until Sztutowo] the fortified cities of Marienburg [Malbork], Dirschau [Tcew] and the Wisłoujście Fortress of Gdansk and the city of Danzig. Swedish forces intentionally and repeatedly breached the embankments of the river during the Swedish-Polish war between 1655 and 1660.
Title from caption cartouche in upper left corner of the print.
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 210.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 209.
Original album; Purchase; 1950.
Formerly: PR13 CN1950:R01. Originals were housed in blind-tooled morocco album 11 x 17 in. Original binding in P&P Suppl. Archives.