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Gibraltar, 1727
CARTE DE LA BAYE DE GIBRALTAR / ET DE SES ENVIRONS Du 7e Avril 1727
published 1727Etching and engraving; printed on paper | Scale: 1:58,500 approx. | RCIN 727020
This shows the sea assault conducted by Sir Charles Wager, and the Spanish camps. The map covers the coastline from east of Gibraltar to south-west of Cap Cabrero (Punta del Carnero 36°04ʹ37ʺN 05°25ʹ32ʺW).
Additional text: [top left, a key, A-H, to features in and around Gibraltar:] Renvoi des Lettres qui se trouvent / dans le Plan.
For further reading, see:
D. Baugh, ‘Wager, Sir Charles (1666–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008.
Condition: one fold line; trimmed close to platemark.
Jean-Baptiste (active 1707?-1736) (publisher) [top left, below key:] Se Vend a Paris Chez le S.r Delure Quay de lHorloge / a l’image Notre Dame. Avec Privilege du Roy 1727.
Antoine Coquart (active 1700-1735) (engraver) [bottom right, inside neatline:] AC.
Watermark: Bunch of grapes and initials H [?] then a heart then [?C] M in a cartouche
Condition: one fold line; trimmed close to platemark
Scale: 1:58,500 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de Trois Mille Toises [100 mm =].
37.6 x 28.1 cm (neatline)
42.1 x 29.5 cm (image)
42.7 x 32.3 cm (platemark)
43.0 x 32.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
CARTE DE LA BAYE DE GIBRALTAR / ET DE SES ENVIRONS Du 7e Avril 1727. [top, above map, outside border]
Additional text:
[top left, a key, A-H, to features in and around Gibraltar:] Renvoi des Lettres qui se trouvent / dans le Plan.
Annotations:
George III heading: Gibraltar 1727.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] 6/31; [bottom left, black pencil, erased and partly legible:] VII/[?].
George III catalogue entry:
Gibraltar Carte de la Baye de Gibraltar et de ses Environs, assiegé par les Espagnols en Avril 1727: chez Delure 1727.
Subject(s)
Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory (36°08'00"N 05°21'00"W)
Bibliographic reference(s)
D. Baugh, ‘Wager, Sir Charles (1666–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
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