American War of Independence (1775-83)
George III’s maps and views showing the development of the war at home and abroad, from North America to India
Map of England and Wales, 1778
c.1784-91Engraving; printed in dark blue ink on paper; hand-coloured; manuscript annotations in ink and watercolour | 62.5 x 52.3 cm (image) | RCIN 734032.t
Daniel Paterson has annotated a printed map which was compiled from source materials relating to roads provided by him and acknowledged in the title of the map. The date of execution of the manuscript contents of the map (1783) is taken from the date of Paterson's commission as Captain in the 36th Foot, the rank with which he writes his name on the title page of the volume.
In: 'Plans of Encampments and Dispositions of the Army in Great Britain from 1778 to 1782. Presented to King George III by George Morrison, Quarter Master General. Drawn by Captain Dan. Paterson, 36.th Reg.t Assistant to the Quart. Mast. General.' See main entry under RCIN 734032.
BL Add MS 15533: p.39.
Condition: two fold lines; trimmed to neatline along top left edge to allow the map to be folded neatly into the volume. Verso: some brown discolouration; top right, old repair with cream coloured silk ribbon, some foxing from the paste.
Carington Bowles (1 April 1724-30 June 1793) (publisher) [bottom of title, on a rock which forms part of the title cartouche:] Printed for the Proprietor / CARINGTON BOWLES / N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard / LONDON / [top right, below Bowles's imprint:] Publish’d as the Act directs, 6 Jan 1780.
Joseph Ellis (active 1758-1802) (engraver) [top right, below title, in title cartouche:] Engrav’d by J. ELLIS.
Daniel Paterson (1738-1825) (annotator)
Subject(s)
Army-GBWatermark: None visible
Condition: two fold lines; trimmed to neatline along top left edge to allow the map to be folded neatly into the volume. Verso: some brown discolouration; top right, old repair with cream coloured silk ribbon, some foxing from the paste
58.6 x 50.4 cm (neatline)
2.5 x 52.3 cm (image)
cropped (platemark)
64.9 x 54.4 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
BOWLES’S / NEW POCKET MAP / OF / ENGLAND & WALES, / with the Addition of / NEW ROADS, / and other / IMPROVEMENTS; / By / DANIEL PATERSON. [top right, title of printed base map, in cartouche representing a sail hoisted on a mast with a tree growing from a rock and a sailor? raising his hat to the left, and Britannia, her arm draped over a cannon to the right]
Manuscript title:
DISPOSITION of the TROOPS in CAMP and CANTONMENT 1778. [Verso, ink, page:] 39 [across top of map, outside border]
Annotations:
[bottom, outside border, a manuscript key, 1-29, to the camps and cantonments drawn on the map:] Reference to / the Militia. [bottom, right of centre:] ‘EXPLANATION’; [bottom, right of centre, gives a key to the hand-coloured symbols used to represent encampments, troops of cavalry, companies of Regular Infantry, Militia, and Invalids, a Regular Regiment in barracks, and a Militia regiment in barracks].
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment A collection of drawn Plans of the Encampments and Dispositions of the Army in Great Britain from 1778 to 1782: by George Morrison, drawn by Danl Paterson. oblong Folio. [The same entry appears under the heading England.]
Subject(s)
England
Wales
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