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Chettaput, 1760
1760 or laterPencil, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:3,517 approx. | RCIN 733002
The attribution to Pleydell is made on stylistic grounds. This is one of fourteen manuscript plans in the collection by Pleydell of fortifications and/or actions during the Third Carnatic War (1757-63), which was part of the Seven Years War. They were all placed, in Cumberland's original collection, in Volume IV/70/1-14. Their current RCIN numbers are 732125, 732126, 733001, 733003-8, 733016.a, 733020, 733027, 733028. It is not known when they were drawn but it must have been sometime before Cumberland's death in 1765. The source material for this set of plans is unknown; there is no evidence to suggest that Pleydell ever went to India, and, in 1760, he was serving in Germany.
Additional text: [left, down left side of map in plain rectangular panel, a key, A and B, to the fort, and a brief description of the recent history of the fort before the French retired to it following the Battle of Wandiwash (22 January 1760), and the succeeding siege by Sir Eyre Coote.]
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration.
John Cleeve Pleydell (1736-1816) (draughtsman)
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters GR below
Mark, stamped: 898
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: 1:3,517 approx. Scale bar: [78 mm =] 300 y.s.
28.2 x 36.6 cm (neatline)
28.2 x 45.7 cm (image)
30.1 x 47.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Additional text:
[left, down left side of map in plain rectangular panel, a key, A and B, to the fort, and a brief description of the recent history of the fort before the French retired to it following the Battle of Wandiwash (22 January 1760), and the succeeding siege by Sir Eyre Coote.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Chettaput 29 Jan. 1760.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, ink:] IV/70/N.o 4; [top left, black pencil, erased:] Chettaput 29 Jan. 1760. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Chettaput A drawn Plan of the Fort of Chettaput, invested and taken by the English Army under the command of Colonel Coote on the 29.th of Jany 1760.
Subject(s)
Chetput, Tamil Nādu, India (12°28'00"N 79°21'00"E)
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