Encampment at Coxheath, 1778

To / The Hon.ble / Wiil,,m Keppel, / Lieutenant General, / And Commander in Chief / of the FORCES Encamp’d on / COX HEATH. / This Representation of the Camp / is with all due Submission Inscrib’d / By His / Most...

John Burch (active 1778) (designer and dedicator)

Thomas Bish (active 1778) (designer and dedicator)

Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the letters G R below; countermark: T W

Condition: one fold line; crease marks consistent with rolling surface dirt along bottom edge; small tears to all edges

60.7 x 33.1 cm (neatline)

61.0 x 33.4 cm (image)

[top and bottom marks cropped] x 39.0 cm (platemark)

63.0 x 39.8 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

To / The Hon.^ble / Wiil,,^m Keppel, / Lieutenant General, / And Commander in Chief / of the FORCES Encamp’d on / COX HEATH. / This Representation of the Camp / is with all due Submission Inscrib’d / By His / Most Obed.^t Hum.^ble Serv.^ts / Jn.^o Burch / Tho.^s Bish. [bottom, right of centre, sideways on, framed by a hedgerow and roads]

Additional text:

[below title:] Publish'd as the Act directs Sep.^r 16.^th / 1778.

Annotations:

George III heading: Encampment on Cox Heath 28 May - 11 Nov. 1778.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, ink, eighteenth-century hand:] Cox Heath Camp 1778.

George III catalogue entry:

Encampment A Plan of the Encampment of the Forces under the command of General Keppel on Cox Heath in 1778: by I. Burch and T. Bish, 1778. 2 sheets.