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Other 17th-century conflicts

Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars

CAREL ALLARD (BAP.19 JAN 1648-1709)

Map of Île de Ré, 1696 (Île de Ré, Poitou-Charentes, France) 46°12ʹ00ʺN 01°25ʹ00ʺE

1721 or later

Etching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: 1:68,000 approx. | RCIN 724086

A map of the naval bombardment of St Martin, Île de Ré, by the British and Dutch fleets on 15 and 16 July 1696. Nine Years War (1688-97). Oriented with north to top (cardinal points).

Inset: [bottom centre, a view of the bombardment of Olone:] Het Bombarderen van Olone // Le Bombardement d'Olone. Size: 9.3 x 20.9 cm (neatline).

Additional text: [left, a key in Dutch and French, a-d, to the locations and numbers of the ships of war, frigates, bomb vessels and fire ships:] Verklaaringe // Renvoy

Condition: one fold line; offsetting from the folded image. Verso: induced discolouration; bottom, right of centre, ghosting from Cumberland's cipher label, illegible.
  • Carel Allard (bap.19 Jan 1648-1709) (cartographer) [bottom left, following on from title, in title cartouche:] Dressé sur les Memoires les plus recents / Par / CHARLES ALLARD / AMSTERDAM / Chez l’Auteur; avec Privilege de nosseigneuers / les Estats de Hollande et de Westfrise

    Covens & Mortier : Amsterdam (Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783)) (publisher) [bottom right, inside neatline:] A AMSTERDAM / Chez COVENS & MORTIER.

    Subject(s)

    Navy-Dutch
    Royal Navy
  • Watermark: The letters W M

    Condition: one fold line; offsetting from the folded image. Verso: induced discolouration; bottom, right of centre, ghosting from Cumberland's cipher label, illegible

  • Scale: 1:68,000 approx. Scale bar: Echelle [65 mm =] 1 Lieue.

    47.6 x 55.9 cm (neatline)

    49.3 x 57.6 cm (image)

    50.9 x 59.1 cm (platemark)

    53.5 x 66.8 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    L’ISLE DE RÉ AVEC SES ENVIRONS; / où est representé / LE BOMBARDEMENT / DE S.T MARTIN, ET / D’OLONE, / Par l’Armée navalle / DE SA MAIESTÉ / BRITANNIQUE, / le 15 & 16. Juillet 1696. [bottom left, in cartouche representing draped, fringed cloth held aloft by winged putti and decorated with the artefacts of war with, top, an exploding mortar]

    Inset:

    [bottom centre, a view of the bombardment of Olone:] Het Bombarderen van Olone // Le Bombardement d'Olone. Size: 9.3 x 20.9 cm (neatline).

    Additional text:

    [left, a key in Dutch and French, a-d, to the locations and numbers of the ships of war, frigates, bomb vessels and fire ships:] Verklaaringe // Renvoy

    Annotations:

    George III heading:  15-16 July 1696.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil, written over another illegible black pencil number:] 7 [and, black pencil:] 16; [top, right of centre, black pencil, erased and illegible: a place name?]; [bottom, left of centre, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?, black pencil:] 64; [right of centre, red pencil:] 67.

    George III catalogue entry:

     Carte de l’Isle de Ré avec ses Environs, et où est representé le Bombardement de S.t Martin et d’Olonne par l’Armée Navale de S.M.B. le 15 et 16 Juillet 1696: par C. Allard.

  • Subject(s)

    Île de Ré, Poitou-Charentes, France (46°12ʹ00ʺN 01°25ʹ00ʺE)

Page revisions

  • 24 July 2024