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Hindustan, 1782-4 (India)
The / SOUTHERN COUNTRIES of INDIA / from / Madrass to Cape Comorin / describing / the Routes of the Armies Commanded by / COLONELS FULLERTON and HUMBERSTON, / during the Campaigns of 1782, 1783, & 1784
c.1784Engraving and etching; printed from two copperplates on two sheets of paper; hand-coloured | Scale: 1:726,019 approx. | RCIN 734073.a
Additional text: [bottom left, a key to the symbols for forts, villages, pagodas and those roads which had been measured with a gunter's chain, and a key to the colours denoting the British and French possessions and the routes for the separate years:] EXPLANATION.
Condition: one fold line; slight surface dirt.
William Faden (1 July 1749-21 March 1836) (publisher) [top right, below surveyors’ names, in title cartouche:] LONDON, / Printed for W.m FADEN Geog.r to the KING Charing Cross Feb.y 8, 1788.
Kelly (active 1782-4) (surveyor)
Wersebe (active 1782-4) (surveyor) [top right, below title:] Surveyed by / Col Kelly, Cap,,t Wersebe, and others
Watermark: Crowned bird facing right, wings spread, standing on branch with two twigs [similar to Heawood 196 but clearer]; countermark: MONTGOLFIER and 8 and 7
Condition: one fold line; slight surface dirt.
Scale: 1:726,019 approx.
85.1 x 49.8 cm (neatline)
86.9 x 50.7 cm (image)
[cropped] x 52.5 cm (platemark)
87.8 x 55.1 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
The / SOUTHERN COUNTRIES of INDIA / from / Madrass to Cape Comorin / describing / the Routes of the Armies Commanded by / COLONELS FULLERTON and HUMBERSTON, / during the Campaigns of 1782, 1783, & 1784. [top right, in cartouche representing a rectangle of material pinned to the map]
Annotations:
George III heading: Marches in Hindoostan 1782, 1783, 1784.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [underneath old heading number, black pencil:] [illegible] 4 [and] XVIII / 4-1-b; [top left, black pencil, erased:] 1782, 83, 84; [left centre, black pencil, erased:] Marches.
Additional text:
[bottom left, a key to the symbols for forts, villages, pagodas and those roads which had been measured with a gunter's chain, and a key to the colours denoting the British and French possessions and the routes for the separate years:] EXPLANATION.
George III catalogue entry:
Hindoostan The Southern Countries of India from Madrass to Cape Comorin describing the Routes of the Armies commanded by Colonels Fullerton and Humberston during the campaigns of 1782, 1783 and 1784: surveyed by Col.l Kelly, Captain Wersebe and others: published by Faden, 1788. 2 sheets. [The same entry appears under the heading Marches.]
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