after 1826, probably the later 1820sPetrovaradin Fortress
Peterwardein in Syrmia, by F. Both after Jakob Alt
The fortress rises above the riverside settlement, with a large wooden vessel, a long narrow boat, figures, felled timber and stacked boards along the foreground shore. The sheet is titled PETERWARDEIN in Syrmien and signed F. Both sc., naming F. Both as the engraver. The composition is a reduced engraved repeat of Jakob Alt's view of Petrovaradin, published as the lithograph Syrmien. Festung Peterwardein in Adolf Friedrich Kunike's Donau-Ansichten at Vienna in 1826. A Croatian History Museum catalogue records the same F. Both print and states that it was made after Alt's lithograph. Who F. Both was beyond that initial is not established.
Engraved by F. Both
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
F. Both sc. / PETERWARDEIN in Syrmien.
F. Both engraved it. Peterwardein in Syrmia.
- Date
- after 1826, probably the later 1820s
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Library of Serbia, Danube collection
- Credit
- National Library of Serbia
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1627 × 1270 px
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