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The Battle of Zonchio

Artist: Venetian

Location: British Museum

Date: 1500

Materials: coloured woodcut

Dimensions: 55 x 80 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £125 (Total: £125)

Vendor: Colnaghi

Review number: 824 (1932)

Provenance:
Collection of Rudolph II; captured by Maximilian of Bavaria at the battle of the White Mountain. In the thirty years war taken by the Saxon duke of the Ernestine line. Remained in the ducal museum at Gotha.

Description:
Representing a battle fought at sea in 1499 off the coast of the Morea between the Turks and the Venetians.

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