Ficha descriptiva
- Title:
- Siege of Bilbao in 1874 : The Choritoque battery
- Document:
- 1768
- Author:
-
Urgelles, L.
- Printer:
- Imprenta de Fidel Giro, Barcelona
- Book / Album / Dossier:
- Estandarte Real, el : revista político-militar ilustrada
- Date Ilustration format :
- 1890
- Date Theme:
- 1874
- Physical description:
- 1 18 x 26 cm engraving on a 21 x 31 cm page
- Notes:
- December 1890 edition. Autographed. "Battery buried en barbette, for a 16-cm piece with a frame that rotated on a masonry floor.[...] The outside was formed by a retaining wall, reinforced by 4 masonry forts. Two tenons on the right and left covered the gun crew; another two...completely closed off the battery..."
- Subjects:
-
Art and Architecture-Military buildings-Forts
Science and Technology-Weapons
History-Wars-2nd Carlist War (1872-1876)
Trades-Soldiers
- Place names :
-
Bilbao - Bizkaia
- Catalogue number:
- ZM : J,4 (Año 2-Num. 21, Pág. 328-329)
- Location:
- Museo Zumalakarregi Museoa
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
