Miscellaneous
Maps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments
Breda, 1769
ARTILLERIE CAMP BY BREDA 1769
1769 or laterEtching and engraving with letterpress text printed on one sheet of paper | Scale: 1:2,900 approx. | RCIN 733074.a
This artillery camp was held in 1769 on the Vrachelse Heide between Teteringen and Oosterhout, to the north-east of Breda. See van Mosselveld 1958, pp.1-5, which gives the background history to this plot of land which was used for artillery practice. According to van Mossveld, the archives relating to this camp which were preserved in the Krijgsgeschiedkundige Afdeling van de Generale Staf, were burned during the war. A poor reproduction of a map of the camp appeared in an article by de Bas 1916, p.63.
Additional text: [below view, letterpress, in Dutch and French, a key, 1-26, A-I, K-V, X-Y, to the tents of named officers and sections of the artillery camp, and to the batteries:] UITLEGGING, / Der CYFFERS en LETTEREN. // EXPLICATION, / Des CHIFRES & CARACTERES.
Condition: one fold line; some foxing along fold.
Isaac du Mee (active 1757-97) (publisher) [bottom centre of letterpress text:] In ‘sGRAVENHAGE, by ISAAC DU MEE, in de Spuistraat.
Watermark: None
Condition: one fold line; some foxing along fold
Scale: 1:2,900 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de 200 Pas à 2 Pied ½ Maat van 200 passen van 2 ½ Voet [53 mm =].
62.3 x 49.8 cm (image)
64.3 x 51.4 cm (sheet)
25.0 x 43.5 cm (image of view)
24.7 x 43.3 cm (neatline of view)
16.4 x 43.4 cm (image of plan)
Printed title:
ARTILLERIE CAMP BY BREDA 1769. [bottom, between border and plate mark, to each side of a vignette of the tented viewing platform of SAS Le Prince Stadhouder Héréditaire]
Additional text:
[below view, letterpress, in Dutch and French, a key, 1-26, A-I, K-V, X-Y, to the tents of named officers and sections of the artillery camp, and to the batteries:] UITLEGGING, / Der CYFFERS en LETTEREN. // EXPLICATION, / Des CHIFRES & CARACTERES.
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Breda 1769.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Breda A Plan and View of the Artillery Camp near Breda in 1769: by Isaac du Mee. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands (51°35'11"N 04°46'33"E)
Bibliographic reference(s)
W.G. Bas ‘De Kalix Berna of Kalbergen’, Militaire Spectator 1916, vol 85, p.63
J.H. van Mosselveld, ‘De Kalix Berna’, Jaarboek Oranjeboom XI, 1958
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