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 laterPen and ink, watercolour, some gilt, on paper; laid down on coarse linen | Scale: not stated. 1:23,500 approx. | RCIN 724091
Additional text: [top right, below title, in title panel, a key to the brigades and names of the regiments encamped to the north-west of Brussels.]
Condition: brown discolouration; several wormholes. Verso: top left, heavily waterstained from removal of Cumberland's cipher label; heavy brown staining.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-Allied army (War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-97)Watermark: None visible
Mark, stamped: 56
Condition: brown discolouration; several wormholes. Verso: top left, heavily waterstained from removal of Cumberland's cipher label; heavy brown staining
Scale: not stated. 1:23,500 approx.
26.0 x 42.5 cm (neatline)
26.4 x 43.0 cm (image)
27.4 x 43.4 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN DE LARMEE DE SA MAIESTE BRITANIQUE [top right, in gold lettering on an azure banner, within a rectangular panel decorated with a border of leaf motifs]
Additional text:
[top right, below title, in title panel, a key to the brigades and names of the regiments encamped to the north-west of Brussels.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Brussels 1697.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil:] 22. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 56; [top right, ink, obscured by linen backing:] B. [and, black pencil:] 22 [top right, obscured by white paper:] Brussels Lines; [centre, red pencil:] 59.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Plan dessiné du Campement de l’Armée des Alliés pres de Bruxelles en 1697. [The same entry appears under the heading Brussels.]
Subject(s)
From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), third son of George II; subsequently acquired by George III (1738-1820)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium (50°51'01"N 04°20'55"E)
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3 November 2024
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