This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

War of the Polish Succession (1733-8)

The Rhine and Moselle rivers and parts of Italy

GEORGE LOUIS LE ROUGE (1707-93/4)

Map of Kaiserslautern, 1735 (Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) 49°26ʹ34ʺN 07°46ʹ17ʺE

published 1741

Etching with engraving; printed on paper | Scale: un ½ guard de Lieue [22 mm =] | RCIN 727041.bb

A map showing the French encampment at Kaiserslautern. War of Polish Succession (1733-8). Oriented with west to top (cardinal points).

From Le Rouge, Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne (1741). See main entry for RCIN 727041.

Additional text: [top left, outside map border, two letters referring to the position of the camp on the general map at RCIN 727041.c:] Ge; [top left, above neatline:] Camp du 14 d'Octobre 1735.

Condition: no fold lines.
  • George Louis le Rouge (1707-93/4) (cartographer and publisher)

    Subject(s)

    Army-France
  • Watermark: Cropped: a bunch of grapes

    Condition: no fold lines

  • Scale: un ½ guard de Lieue [22 mm =]

    13.6 x 17.4 cm (image)

    14.3 x 18.0 cm (platemark)

    13.0 x 16.8 cm (neatline)

    19.2 x 24.2 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    CAMP / DE KAISERSLAUTERN / premiere marche de / Treves á Clausen [top right, in rectangular panel]

    Printed title:

    58 [top right, above map border]

    Additional text:

    Ge [top left, outside map border, two letters referring to the position of the camp on the general map at RCIN 727041.c:] 

    Annotations:

    None

    George III catalogue entry:

    Germany Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne contenant toutes les Operations Militaires des Campagnes de 1733, 3 et 5, les Plans des Sieges et des Camps: par le S.r le Rouge. Paris, 1741. 4.to oblong.

  • Subject(s)

    Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49°26ʹ34ʺN 07°46ʹ17ʺE)