Coins and Medals Department, Pushkin
Отдел Коллекция Проекты Научная работа отдела Библиотека События Партнеры Меценаты

Capture of Mitava,
September 4 (15), 1705

Author

Müller/ Miller/ Myller Philipp Heinrich

Materials

tin

Size

46 мм

Provenance

From the collection of Alexander Stakhovich , 1983

Inventory №

251761

Obverse

PETRVS ALEXII FIL. D.G. RVSS. IMP. M. DVX MOSCOVIAE.
Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right (M1)
Signed: M (Muller)

Reverse

CVRAT CONTENDERE MARTE. VIRG.*
City Goddess sitting left, in the background plan of fortress
In exergue: MITTAVIVM EXPVG/ 4.SEPT.S.V.

Comments

Verg. Aen, IX. 518-520:
...nec curat caeco contendere Marte
amplius audaces Rutuli, sed pellere vallo
missilibus certant.

Notes

 Plan of fortress on the reverse reproduced engraving from"Book of Mars"

Literature

Russian Victories 2009, 259

Keywords

PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF MITAVA CASTLE. SEPTEMBER 4, 1705.

Print no.6 from the "Book of Mars" (1st edition)

Author

Unknown engraver of the St.Peterburg printing-office

Size

245x352, 210x290

Provenance

Collection of D.A. Rovinsky (St Petersburg), Rumyantsev museum (1898), Pushkin museum (1924)

Inventory №

Гр-6545