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Fort den Haak and Walcheren, 1784
Fort den Haak and Walcheren, 1784
N:o 6 Walcheren. Fort de Haak c.1784
Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:218 approx. | RCIN 734102.2.e
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Item: Plan of Fort den Haak and Walcheren, 1784 (Fort den Haak, Breezand, Netherlands) 51?35'00"N 03?37'07"E; (Walcheren, Netherlands) 51?31'10"N 03?34'47"E c.1784
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This plan, together with four other manuscript maps and plans at RCINs 734102.2.a-d, appear to result from a clandestine intelligence gathering operation on the Walcheren area in December 1784 in advance of proposed British hostilities. Oriented with south-west to top.
The map is flanked on the left by a small watercolour perspective view of the fort and, on the right, by a small watercolour 'Birds Eye View' with notes.
Five plans of part of the island of Walcheren and the attack on Flushing (Vlissingen). Formerly contained in a rough buff paper folder on which the George III heading is written: 'XIV/102-2-a-e ['a-e' added in later hand] Walcheren, 1784. [Bottom, black pencil, in a modern hand:] Jan '87 [i.e. 1987] CMB'.
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Anonymous (cartographer)
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Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters GR below
Mark, stamped: 1044
Condition: no fold lines; trimmed to neatline at left and right edges. Verso: induced discolouration
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Scale: 1:218 approx. Scale bar: Scale for the Plan only [89 mm =] 10 Toises.
17.3 x 47.7 cm (neatline)
20.6 x 48.0 cm (image)
22.0 x 48.0 cm (sheet)
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Manuscript title:
N:o 6 Walcheren. Fort de Haak. [top left, outside border]
Annotations:
George III heading: Walcheren, 1784.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Walcheren Five drawn Plans of Fortifications in the Island of Walcheren, relative to a proposed Attack of Flushing, 1784.
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From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by George III (1738-1820)
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Subject(s)
Fort den Haak, Breezand, Netherlands (51°35'00"N 03°37'07"E)
Walcheren, Netherlands (51°31'10"N 03°34'47"E)
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