Military review at Zeithain and Mühlberg, 1730 (Zeithain, Saxony, Germany) 51°20ʹ01ʺN 13°20ʹ17ʺE; (Mühlberg, Brandenburg, Germany) 51°26ʹ04ʺN 13°13ʹ18ʺE

JF Berger (active 1730) (draughtsman)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Cropped: fleur-de-lys in shield, crown above, ‘4’ and the letters WR below; countermark: I VILLEDARY

Mark, stamped: 197

Condition: one fold line. Verso: induced discolouration; left and right sides crumpled

Scale: 1:15,000 approx. [based on Ruthen]. Scale bars: Schritt [72 mm = 1500]; Ellen [72 = 2000]; Rh. Ruth.' [75 mm = 300].

49.2 x 41.2 cm (neatline)

52.4 x 41.2 cm (image)

53.0 x 41.7 cm (sheet)

Manuscript title:

6ter Plan / Auf dem Tag der Colonnes auf das Mouvement, E welcher zeiget, wie die Regimenter, in,, / dem sich solche mit gantzer fronte schwencken, ihre intervallen in wehrender Schwenckung zu / observiren haben F./. [top, in rectangular panel across top of diagram]

Additional text:

[bottom right, in cartouche resembling a trompe l’oeil scroll, a key, a-h, to the movements shown in the diagram:] Explicatio derer Buchstaben.

Annotations:

George III heading: none.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, black pencil, in Christian Bailey’s hand:] VII/34-(14).

George III catalogue entry:

Zeithayn Plans dessiné des differentes Exercises et Mouvements Militaires executés par les Troupes Saxonnes de S.M. le Roy de Pologne et Electeur de Saxe au Campement de Zeithayn depuis le 1.^re jusqu’au 26.^e de Juin 1730. Fol.