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Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Map of Brussels, 1697 (Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium) 50°51'01"N 04°20'55"E
1697 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; gilt edges top, bottom, left and right | Scale: not stated. 1:21,000 approx. | RCIN 724090
The map bears the same title as the engraved map at RCIN 724089 and shows the same general information. However, it is drawn to a larger scale than the printed map, which lacks the detailed information on the names and dispositions of the regiments, It is possible that RCIN 724090 is copied in part from the printed map, and perhaps at a later date.
The terrain of the country around Brussels is shown in some detail, together with the fortified lines of the Allies and their encampment on the west side of Brussels. The Allied army, apprised of Villeroi's plan to bombard Brussels by their intelligence services, had marched overnight on 22/23 June for 30 km (18.6 miles) through the forests of Soignies in order to pre-empt the French arrival. The French arrived hours later but were beaten back by an Allied offensive.
This plan has been removed from a volume, made about 1719 or later, of manuscript maps and plans of sieges. Other maps, perhaps in a different hand but, apparently from the same volume, are scattered throughout the collection: RCINs [724061], 725007, 725009, 725011, 725013, 725021, 725023, 725027, 725030, 725032, 725041, [725044], 725045, 725047, [725055], 725074, 725087, 725098, 726007, 726014, 726022, 726041, 726045, 726053, 726065, 726073, 726080, 726086, 726090, 727004, 727007, 727011, 727013, 727014.
Additional text: [bottom left, in rectangular panels, a key, a-i, k-t, v-z, to the main gates and buildings in Brussels. Bottom right, in cartouche representing a stone plinth, a numerical key to the named encamped regiments:] Renvoi sur les Chiffres, des Regiments, et Battaillons / icÿ bas nommes. Les Noms der Generaux. Le PRINCE de VAUDEMONT Generalissime. / Le Duc de Würtenberg, General de l’infanterie [etc.].
For further reading, see:
J. Childs, The Nine Years’ War and the British army, 1688-1697: the operations in the Low Countries, Manchester, 1991; reprint 2013, pp.337-8.
Condition: one fold line. Verso: induced discolouration; remains of old guard along the centre fold.
J.C. von Grünberg (active 1697) (draughtsman) [bottom, right of centre, inside border:] J.C. Von Grünberg. fecit. Nobil: Siles:
Subject(s)
Army-Allied army (War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-97)Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield suspending a ‘4’ with the letters WR below; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 55
Condition: one fold line. Verso: induced discolouration; remains of old guard along the centre fold
Scale: not stated. 1:21,000 approx.
46.1 x 69.5 cm (neatline)
48.7 x 69.9 cm (image)
52.8 x 74.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan. de. la. Ville. de. BRUSSELLES. et. ses. environs, avec. les. Campemens. de. l’Armée. des. Alliez, leurs. Retranchemens, et. les. nouveaux. Ouvrages, qu’on. ÿ. a. dressés. par. Ordre. / de sa Maÿeste Britannique, pour prévenir les insultes des Ennemis, l’An. 1697. [top, across top of map, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[bottom left, in rectangular panels, a key, a-i, k-t, v-z, to the main gates and buildings in Brussels. Bottom right, in cartouche representing a stone plinth, a numerical key to the named encamped regiments:] Renvoi sur les Chiffres, des Regiments, et Battaillons / icÿ bas nommes. Les Noms der Generaux. Le PRINCE de VAUDEMONT Generalissime. / Le Duc de Würtenberg, General de l’infanterie [etc.].
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Brussels 1697 24 June – Nov.r 1697.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, ink:] 76. (Verso) [top right, ink:] 76; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil:] 3/169 [and, black pencil, partly illegible:] IV/[?]
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Plan dessiné de la Ville de Brusselles et ses Environs, avec les Campemens d l’Armée des Alliés, leurs Retranchemens et les nouveaux Ouvrages qu’on y a dressés par ordre de S.M.B. pour prevenir les insultes des Ennemis, l’an 1697: par I.C. von Grunberg. [The same entry appears under the heading Brussels.]
Subject(s)
Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium (50°51'01"N 04°20'55"E)
Bibliographic reference(s)
J. Childs, The Nine Years’ War and the British army, 1688-1697: the operations in the Low Countries, Manchester 1991, reprint 2013, pp. 337-8
Page revisions
25 May 2024
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