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Maps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments

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    Windsor Forest, 1788 (Windsor, Berkshire, UK) 51°28'12"N 00°41'06"W

    c.1788

    Ink on two sides of one sheet of paper | 32.6 x 19.8 cm (sheet) | RCIN 734106.2.d

    Explanatory text to the sketch of Windsor forest (RCIN 734106.2.b)? This text appears to be in a different hand to the maps and other text at RCINs 734106.2.a-c.

    Formerly kept in a buff rag paper folder on which is inscribed (recto, bottom) the old heading and, in black pencil in a modern hand: (a-d) CMB Jan 87.

    Condition: three fold lines; slight surface dirt along bottom edge.

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    • Watermark: Crown with the letters GR below; countermark, cropped: V

      Mark, stamped: 1060

      Condition: three fold lines; slight surface dirt along bottom edge

    • 32.6 x 19.8 cm (sheet)

    • Manuscript title:

      Sketch of the Opposition intended by Infantry to the / Queens Light Dragoons at their Review. / Windsor May 26:th 1788.

      Annotations:

      George III heading: Windsor 26 May 1788.

      Other annotations: none.

      George III catalogue entry:

      Windsor Two drawn Sketches of the Movements intended to be performed before His Majesty at a Review of the 16.th or Queen’s Regiment of Light Dragoons in Windsor Forest, 26.th May 1788: by H.F. Gardner; with MS Explanations.

    • Subject(s)

      Windsor, Berkshire, UK (51°28'12"N 00°41'06"W)

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