The first page of the chapter on the battle of Petrovaradin in the first volume of Jean du Mont's Dutch history of Prince Eugene's battles, printed in The Hague in 1729. An etched vignette signed by Jan Wandelaar after Jan van Huchtenburg heads the page: a small map of the two armies drawn up across the Syrmian plain between Belgrade, Zemun, Slankamen and Karlovci, framed by captured arms and standards, eagles, river gods, Fame with her trumpet and a wreathed portrait of Eugene. The same design also circulated in a Nuremberg version engraved by August Christian Fleischmann. The printed title dates the battle to 4 August 1716, a day earlier than the 5 August engraved on the volume's own plates of the same action, and the text opens with the Ottoman war on Venice and the fall of the Morea.
Drawn by Jan van Huchtenburg · Engraved by Jan Wandelaar · Published by Isaac van der Kloot
About this place
The hill above Petrovaradin on the Fruska Gora side of the Danube, and the ground on which the Battle of Petrovaradin was fought on 5 August 1716. The Ottoman army under the Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha camped here to besiege the fortress, and the hill carries his title: Vezirac is the Vizier's place. Prince Eugene of Savoy crossed from the fortress and broke the Ottoman line in a single morning. The Grand Vizier was mortally wounded in the fighting and died soon after, and the defeat ended the Ottoman advance on the middle Danube. The Peace Monument stands on the hill today.
On the card
113 / Belgrado / Save flu. / Baniz / Dobronitzo / Baryczo / Dubanaizo / Zemlyn / Metrowitz / Aligetz / Marka / Salankemen / Carllowitz / Korom / Donau flu. / J: Hugtenburgh inv: / J: Wandelaar fecit. / VELDSLAG VAN PETERWARADYN, Geleverd op den 4. Augustus 1716. / DE OTTOMANNISCHE PORTE had de Venetiaanen aangetast, zonder zich eenigsins te bekreunen de Stilstand van Wapenen, die in den jaare 1699. te Carlowitz getroffen was. Zy hadden de overgroote overmagt der Turksche wapenen niet konnen weêrstaan. Coron, Modon, Napoli di Romania en Napoli di Malvasia, Plaatsen die zo veel bloeds hadden gekost omze te winnen, en gelds omze te behouden, gaven zich enkel en alleen uyt schrik en vrees over. Gansch Morea had zich ondergegeeven, en de Porte, hoogmoedig op zo een schielyken voortgank, strekte haar oogmerk al uyt tot aan d'andere zyde van de Golf. / I. Deel. / Ff / Zy
Page 113. On the map: Belgrade, the river Sava, Baniz, Dobronitzo, Baryczo, Dubanaizo, Zemun, Mitrovica, Aligetz, Marka, Slankamen, Karlovci, Korom, the river Danube. Designed by J. Huchtenburg. Engraved by J. Wandelaar. The Battle of Petrovaradin, fought on 4 August 1716. The Ottoman Porte had attacked the Venetians, without troubling itself in the least about the armistice concluded at Karlovci in the year 1699. They had not been able to withstand the overwhelming superiority of the Turkish arms. Coron, Modon, Napoli di Romania and Napoli di Malvasia, places that had cost so much blood to win and so much money to keep, surrendered out of sheer fright and fear. The whole Morea had submitted, and the Porte, proud of so swift an advance, was already stretching its aim to the other side of the Gulf. Volume I. Ff. They