2-702-426 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Johann Tserclas Graf Von Tilly', (1933). Portrait of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559-1632), Flemish soldier of the Thirty Years War. Tilly was appointed by Maximilian I of Bavaria to reorganise the Bavarian army in 1610. He commanded the Catholic army at the beginning of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and succeeded Wallenstein as Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Forces in 1630. He was mortally wounded in a battle against the Swedes at the crossing of the river Lech in Germany in 1632. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]