Other 17th-century conflicts
Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
Map of Île de Ré, 1696 (Île de Ré, Poitou-Charentes, France) 46°12ʹ00ʺN 01°25ʹ00ʺE
1721 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: 1:68,000 approx. | RCIN 724086
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-DutchRoyal NavyWatermark: 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: Ré 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:
Ré 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)
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