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    Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:385 approx. | RCIN 734102.2.d

    A combination reconnaissance plan and view graphic, together with the other four maps and plans at RCINs 734102.2.a-e, which appear to result from a clandestine intelligence gathering operation in December 1784 in advance of proposed British hostilities. Oriented with south-west to top.

    This plan shows an interesting use of the colour bluey-purple for the beach which, unlike the sandy beaches on the south coast of Walcheren Island, is mud. The colour is therefore a naturalistic representation of the ground conditions.

    Additional text: [left, down left side of plan in rectangular frame, a view of part of the bastion with a descriptive note; right, down right side of plan in plain rectangular frame, a descriptive key, 1-14, to the principal features of military importance:] Explanation of the Cyphers.

    Five plans of part of the island of Walcheren and the attack on Flushing (Vlissingen). Formerly contained in a rough buff paper folder on which the old heading is written: XIV/102-2-a-e ['a-e' added in later hand] Walcheren, 1784. [Bottom, black pencil, in a modern hand:] Jan '87 [i.e. 1987] CMB.

    Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration.

    • Anonymous (cartographer)

    • Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters GR below

      Mark, stamped: 1043

      Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration

    • Scale: 1:385 approx. Scale bar: [158 mm =] 200 Feet.

      17.2 x 25.8 cm (neatline)

      19.7 x 46.8 cm (image)

      21.3 x 47.7 cm (sheet)

    • Manuscript title:

      N:o 5 Walcheren. The Town of Veere or Camveere. [top, outside border]

      Additional text:

      [left, down left side of plan in rectangular frame, a view of part of the bastion with a descriptive note; right, down right side of plan in plain rectangular frame, a descriptive key, 1-14, to the principal features of military importance:] Explanation of the Cyphers.

      Annotations:

      George III heading: Walcheren, 1784.

      Other annotations: none.

      George III catalogue entry:

      Walcheren Five drawn Plans of Fortifications in the Island of Walcheren, relative to a proposed Attack of Flushing, 1784.

    • Subject(s)

      Veere, Netherlands (51°32'54"N 03°40'00"E)

      Walcheren, Netherlands (51°31'10"N 03°34'47"E)

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