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Carnatic, 1781-4
PLAN / of the Marches, of the / Grand Army in the Carnatic, / from the Time of the Junction of the / Bengal Detachment
c.1785Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; pricking through | Scale: 1:510,902 approx. | RCIN 734062
The geographical area covered extends from Niacheller (near present-day Sriharikota) in the north to Cuddalore in the south and as far inland as Arcot.
Correspondence relating to Colonel Pearse's marches in 1784 is referred to in the Press-list of records belonging to the Foreign Department of the Government of India: Series III: Secret Dept, Vol. 5. National Archives of India. See also Parlby (1822), for numerous, and interesting extracts from his original correspondence, connected with some of the most important events in the Government of India.
Additional text: [bottom right, an explanation of the conventions used for representing the camps:] The Flags turned Westward / are the Encampments of the / Army when going from / Madras & Contra when / returning.
Pearse's scientific observations, made while on these marches, are described in Das Gupta 2011, p.40.
Condition: no fold lines; creases consistent with having been rolled; surface dirt along crease marks.
Thomas Deane Pearse (1741/2-1789) (compiler) [bottom left, below title:] composed by T D Pearse / Col / comg the Detachment.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the scrolled letter W below
Mark, stamped: 1014
Condition: no fold lines; creases consistent with having been rolled; surface dirt along crease marks
Scale: 1:510,902 approx. Scale bar: Scale British Statute MILES 69½ to a Degree [126 mm =] 40.
48.5 x 34.2 cm (neatline)
48.9 x 34.6 cm (image)
51.3 x 36.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / of the Marches, of the / Grand Army in the Carnatic, / from the Time of the Junction of the / Bengal Detachment. [bottom left]
Additional text:
[bottom right, an explanation of the conventions used for representing the camps:] The Flags turned Westward / are the Encampments of the / Army when going from / Madras & Contra when / returning.
Annotations:
George III heading: Marches in the Carnatic 3 Aug. 1781-1784.
Other annotations (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil, erased:] XVIII/[cropped]. (Verso) [top right, in eighteenth-/nineteenth-century hand:] Col Pearse; [top left, black pencil, underlined word, erased and illegible].
George III catalogue entry:
Carnatic A drawn Plan of the Marches of the Grand Army in the Carnatic from the time of the junction of the Bengal Detachment, 3.d August 1781 to 1784: by Colonel Pearse.
Subject(s)
Tamil Nadu, India
Bibliographic reference(s)
S. Parlby, The British Indian Military Repository, vol.I, Calcutta 1822
U. Das Gupta (ed.), Science and modern India: an institutional history, c.1784-1947, History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization, Vol.XV, Part 4, New Delhi 2011
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