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Walcheren, 1784
No 1. Walcheren The mouth of the Scheild
c.1784Pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:63,000 approx. | RCIN 734102.2.a
Additional text: [top right, in the blank area of 'South Beveland', a key, 1-6, to maritime features and to the Dutch ships at anchor off Vlissingen and Fort Rammekins.]
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: induced discolouration.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: I. TAYLOR
Mark, stamped: 1040
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: 1:63,000 approx. Scale bar: Scale of one French League [71 mm =].
21.9 x 36.6 cm (neatline)
23.8 x 36.9 cm (image)
25.2 x 40.1 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
No 1. Walcheren The mouth of the Scheild. [top, outside border]
Additional text:
[top right, in the blank area of 'South Beveland', a key, 1-6, to maritime features and to the Dutch ships at anchor off Vlissingen and Fort Rammekins.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Walcheren, 1784.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, erased and partly legible:] X[V]II/[?] (Verso) 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)
Walcheren, Netherlands (51°31'10"N 03°34'47"E)
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