In 1683, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_II" class="extiw" title="en:Nicolaes Visscher II">Nicolaes Visscher II</a> (1649-1702) published a series of ten prints about the Turkish siege of the city of Vienna with the most important pictures of the war. The prints were engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeyn_de_Hooghe" class="extiw" title="en:Romeyn de Hooghe">Romeyn de Hooghe</a> (1645-1708) after drawings from the Antwerp artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Peeters" class="extiw" title="en:Jacob Peeters">Jacob Peeters</a> . On September 2, 1683, a large amount of gunpowder was found that the Turks intended to explode in the castel of the Emperor, the Hofburg. The print depicts the surprise attack by the Austrians on the Turks which prevented the explosion.
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