Eigendtlicher Abriss mit angehencktem kurtzem Bericht was bey der gewaltigen Brucken by Esseckh in dem Königreich Vngarn in dem Jenner dieses 1664. Jahrs passiret vnd was auch Ihre Hoch Gräfl. Excell. Herr Graff Nicolaus von Serin, &c. als Kayserl. May. Generalissimus, sampt denen vnder Ihrer Hoch Gräfl. Excell. Herren Wolffgang Julio Graffen von Hohenlohe, etc. als General Leutenanden stehenden auxiliar Reichs-Volckern wider den Bluthundt vnd Erbfeind Christlichen Nahmens dem Türggen fur glückliche progress gehabt?

Print shows battle scene from behind of armies on horseback on attack with smoke and fire rising up from the Suleiman the Magnificent Bridge in Esseckh in the Hungarian Empire (present day Osijek, Croatia) in January 1664. At top of image are cartouche portraits of Count Nicolas von Serin and Sultan Mehmet IV. Between the portraits is a small map of the layout of the battlefield along the Drava River showing the location of von Serin's camp. The bridge was later rebuilt by Suleiman the II but was burnt down again by the Austrian army in 1686.
Title from caption below image on item.
Additional lengthy description in German below text with key for numbers 1-6 identified in the print.
Print signed: Georg Andreas Wolfgang, sc.
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 108.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 108.
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.