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Map of Flushing and Walcheren, 1784 (Vlissingen, Netherlands) 51°26'33"N 03°34'25"E; (Walcheren, Netherlands) 51°31'10"N 03°34'47"E
c.1784Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:210 approx. | RCIN 734102.2.c
Inset: [top left:] N:o 4 View of Rammekins from the south west. [showing, at letter A:] Part of the Calot Shoal as it appears half Flood Tyde.
Additional text: [left, below title:] There are no Cannon in this Work / The landing is good, & the Curts. to the Eastward of the Salient Angles / might be storm'd with the greatest probability of success.
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 old 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.
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: heavy surface dirt along left edge.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: I. TAYLOR
Mark, stamped: 1042
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: heavy surface dirt along left edge
Scale: 1:210 approx. Scale bar: Scale for the Plan and Sections only [135 mm =] 15 Toises.
25.9 x 37.0 cm (neatline)
26.3 x 41.1 cm (image)
27.5 x 42.6 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
N:o 3 Plan, sections, & perspective View of part of Vlissingen, described in N:o 2. / under the Cyphers 12 and 13. [left centre]
Inset:
[top left:] N:o 4 View of Rammekins from the south west. [showing, at letter A:] Part of the Calot Shoal as it appears half Flood Tyde.
Additional text:[left, below title:] There are no Cannon in this Work / The landing is good, & the Curts. to the Eastward of the Salient Angles / might be storm'd with the greatest probability of success.
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.
Subject(s)
Vlissingen, Netherlands (51°26'33"N 03°34'25"E)
Walcheren, Netherlands (51°31'10"N 03°34'47"E)
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