A steel engraving after a drawing by William Henry Bartlett, engraved by James Charles Armytage for William Beattie's book on the Danube, published in London by George Virtue. Petrovaradin Fortress stands on its sheer white limestone rock above a wide, still Danube, the long barrack range along the crest and the water-gate bastions of the lower town at river level. A paddle steamer lies at the near bank with smoke rising from its funnel and a roofed barge alongside, a covered ferry is rowed across the middle distance and fishing boats lie out on the water. The near shore, on the Novi Sad side, is a working landing where men in broad hats roll and stack barrels, bales and baskets across the shingle.
Drawn by W. H. Bartlett · Engraved by J. C. Armytage
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
Peterwardein. W. H. Bartlett. J. C. Armytage.
Peterwardein, the German name of the fortress, in engraved script below the impression, with the draughtsman W. H. Bartlett signed at the lower left and the engraver J. C. Armytage at the lower right.
- Date
- 1840–1844
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 4252 × 3083 px
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