War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Netherlands, 1744
1744 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:144,800 approx. | RCIN 729007.c
One of a set of six encampment maps of which the first one is missing (not present when catalogued in the early nineteenth century); see RCINs 729007.a-f. The distance travelled on this march route was about 34 km (21 miles).
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Watermark: Indistinct: the letter Q or a device in a circle with a flourish below
Mark, stamped: 356
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: not stated. 1:144,800 approx.
26.8 x 16.8 cm (neatline)
27.1 x 17.2 cm (image)
28.1 x 18.1 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN. / Von den March des unter den Herren / General Lieutenant von Sommerfeldt / Exell: detachirten Corps nach Oudenar, / de, welches [den] 31tn Maÿ 1744 aus / dem Lager beÿ Assche aufbrach / und bis Mehr und Erbe marchirete / den 1ten Junÿ beÿ Velsicke campirete / und [dem] 2tn Junÿ beÿ Oudinarde / auf den Keÿsersberge Sich lager, / te welche Marchs Ruhte, die / Haupt Armée Selbst, [den] 1te / und 2te Junÿ bis ins Campe, / ment. Zwischen Velsicke und / Marienlatem gehalten. [bottom left, in rectangular panel]
Manuscript title:
No: 3 [top right, outside border]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments in the Netherlands 1744.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] 8/23; [bottom left, black pencil, erased:] IX/[29]; [top left, red pencil:] 2.
George III catalogue entry:
Netherlands A Journal of the Campaign of 1744, with five Plans of the Encampments &.c of the Allied Army in the Netherlands. MS. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Netherlands
Oudenaarde [Belgium]
Aalst [Belgium]
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