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Map of encampment at Hameln, 1779 (Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany) 52°06'14"N 09°21'22"E
c.1779Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:14,000 approx. | RCIN 734048.a
This map bears the signature of General Wangenheim, probably Georg August von Wangenheim (1706-80), who was appointed General of Infantry in 1777. It shows the scene of his last undertaking of any note, the great manoeuvres of the Hanoverian army which took place at Hameln between 16 and 26 September 1779. This map must have been made sometime between then and Wangenheim's death just a year later.
Additional text: [bottom right, in title cartouche, below title, an explanation of the colouring of the regimental rectangles, and a key to their movements and manoeuvres.]
Condition: one fold line; two pinholes to each corner. Verso: the pinholes are marked in black ink, as if paper had been pinned to the map in order to copy it, and, when the border was drawn in black ink, the ink migrated through the holes.
? Schroter (active 1779) (draughtsman) [bottom right, between neatline and border:] Enseigne Schroter.
Georg August von Wangenheim (1706-80) (signature)
Subject(s)
Army-HanoverWatermark: C & I HONIG
Mark, stamped: 998
Condition: one fold line; two pinholes to each corner. Verso: the pinholes are marked in black ink, as if paper had been pinned to the map in order to copy it, and, when the border was drawn in black ink, the ink migrated through the holes
Scale: 1:14,000 approx. Scale bar: Maastab von 500 Calenberger Ruthen [202 mm =]; [168 mm =] 3000 Schritt.
41.9 x 54.2 cm (neatline)
42.6 x 54.9 cm (image)
48.7 x 61.0 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / des Lagers bey / Hameln / vom 16ten biss den 26ten Septemb. 1779. [bottom right, in rococo cartouche]
Additional text:
[bottom right, in title cartouche, below title, an explanation of the colouring of the regimental rectangles, and a key to their movements and manoeuvres.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Hameln 16 - 26 Sep. 1779.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, red ink, eighteenth-/nineteenth-century hand:] Mr 1814.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Plan des Lagers bey Hameln vom 16.ten biss den 26.ten Sept.r 1779: vom Enseigne Schroter. drawn. With a manuscript Report by General Wangenheim.
Subject(s)
Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany (52°06'14"N 09°21'22"E)
Page revisions
6 June 2024
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