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Map of Brabant and Namur, 1695 (Namur, Walloon Region, Belgium) 50°28'00"N 04°52'02"E
1695 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: 1:117,000 approx. | RCIN 724073
This map, which appears to have been based on Visscher's map at RCIN 724072, was one of four maps which were published in Relation de la Campagne de Flandre, et du Siege de Namur, En l’Année 1695. Avec Les Cartes Et Les Plans Necessaires Pour La Parfaite Intelligence De Cette Relation. A La Haye, Chez Henry Van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dans le Pooten, à l’Enseigne de Mezeray. 1696. See RCIN 1028090: RELATION / DE LA / CAMPAGNE / DE / FLANDRE, / ET DU / SIEGE DE NAMUR, / En l’Année 1695. / AVEC LES CARTES ET LES PLANS NECESSAIRES / POUR LA PARFAITE INTELLIGENCE / DE CETTE RELATION. / A LA HAYE, / Chez HENRY VAN BULDEREN, Marchand Libraire, dans / le Pooten, à l’Enseigne de MEZERAY. 1696. / AVEC PERMISSION DU ROY. [red and black title-page]
Additional text: [top right, in cartouche representing draped, fringed material with three putti to the left, a key to the symbols used to identify the Allied and French camps:] Remarques
Condition: one fold line. Verso: brown discolouration; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Nicolaas Visscher II (1649-1702) (publisher) [top right, below map symbol text:] à Masteldam chez N. Vißcher / avec Privilege.
Subject(s)
Army-FranceArmy-Allied army (War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-97)Watermark: None
Condition: one fold line. Verso: brown discolouration; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:117,000 approx. Scale bar: Deux Lieues communes de Pays [76 mm =].
42.7 x 55.3 cm (image and neatline)
43.1 x 55.9 cm (platemark)
49.0 x 62.6 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
CARTE PARTICULIERE / DES MOUVEMENTS FAITS, / ET DES POSTES OCCUPEZ / par / LES ARMEES DES ALIEZ / commandées par / LE ROY DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE, / ET CELLES DE FRANCE / commandés par LE MARECHAL DE VILLEROY / pendant / LE SIEGE DE NAMUR / 1695. / Gravé par l’ordre du Roy. [bottom right, in cartouche as if carved in stone, surmounted by three lions, perhaps representing the victorious Imperial, Dutch and English allies with, bottom right, Aquarius-like figures pouring water from jars and a cornucopia with a satyr to the left]
Additional text:
[top right, in cartouche representing draped, fringed material with three putti to the left, a key to the symbols used to identify the Allied and French camps:] Remarques
Annotations:
George III heading: Namur 1695.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil: indistinct mark and, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?, black pencil:] 15; [bottom left, left of centre, in Schultz's hand?, black pencil:] Campements de Namur 1695. [and, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?, black pencil:] 47.
George III catalogue entry:
Namur Carte particuliere des Mouvements faits et des Postes occupés par les Armées des Alliés commandées par le Roy de la Grande Bretagne, et celles de France commandées par le Marechal de Villeroy pendant le Siege de Namur en 1695: chez N. Visscher.
Subject(s)
Namur, Walloon Region, Belgium (50°28'00"N 04°52'02"E)
Page revisions
3 November 2024
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