Maps, views and documents from 19 wars
Maps, views and documents from 19 wars
Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; some pricking through | Scale: 1:3,000 approx. | RCIN 728045.a
? OC de Marin (active 1736-41)
O'Meara, ‘Lacy, Peter, Count Lacy in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1678–1751)’, Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
S.C. Tucker (ed), A global chronology of conflict: from the Ancient World to the modern Middle East, 6 vols, Santa Barbara 2010, vol.II, p. 738
? OC de Marin (active 1736-41) (draughtsman)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys suspending a ‘4’ and WR with V below and countermark IV
Mark, stamped: 273
Condition: one fold line; unevenly trimmed; one small tear to left edge
Scale: 1:3,000 approx. Scale bar [85 mm = 150 faden].
45.9 x 67.0 cm (neatline)
47.3 x 68.4 cm (image)
50.3 x 71.7 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN DER FESTUNG WILMAN[N]=STRAND [top, in a cartouche representing a scroll]
Additional text:
ERKLÆRUNG DERER BUCH-STABEN / Wie das Corps der Russich Käýserlichen Armeé wieder dem feindli= / chem Corps der Schwedischen=Armeé unter der Stadt Wilman[n]= / strand den [blank space left to insert the date] Augusti A.o 1741: gestanden. [bottom right, in cartouche representing a trompe l'oeil torn sheet of paper: a key, A-I, K-Z, a-f, to the regiments of the Russian and Swedish armies]
Annotations:
George III heading: Willmanstrand August 1741.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom centre, red pencil:] 7/29; [bottom centre, black pencil, erased:] VIII/47.
George III catalogue entry:
Willmanstrand A drawn Plan of the Siege of Wilman-Strand by the Russians in August 1741: with Profiles of the Fortifications.
Probably 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)
Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland (61°03'31"N 28°11'19"E)