Russo-Turkish Wars
The wars of 1735–9, 1768–74 and 1787–92
Battle of Baschkiwzi, 1769
PLAN / de la Bataille de BASCHKIWZI. [top right, above edge of border:] Planche IX Page 103
1773Etching and engraving; printed on paper; hand coloured | Scale: 1:32,000 approx. | RCIN 733072.i
A detailed map of the positions and actions of the Russian and Turkish armies during the battle. The positions of named Russian regiments are marked.
Additional text: [top left, in rococo cartouche, a key, A-I, K-U, W, to the march routes of the Russian army, camps, troop positions, and retreats of the Turks:] EXPLICATION.
Map no. IX in: Histoire de la Guerre entre la Russie et la Turquie, et particulièrement de la campagne de 1769 by Louis Félix Guinement de Keralio, with notes by Prince A.M. Golitsuin, St Petersbourg, 1773. See RCINs 733072.a-h for the other maps.
Condition: four fold lines.
Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, below border:] J. v. Schley, sculp. direx.
? Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (publisher)
Watermark: Indistinct, letter B in indistinct object; countermark: three words/names, one above the other: M [?] SAISI[??] / FIN / DANGOUMOIS
Condition: four fold lines
Scale: 1:32,000 approx. Scale bar: 3 Werstes [and] 4500 Pas [100 mm =].
47.0 x 40.4 cm (neatline)
48.6 x 40.9 cm (image)
48.7 x 42.0 cm (platemark)
49.7 x 42.7 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN / de la Bataille de BASCHKIWZI. [top right, above edge of border:] Planche IX Page 103. [top right]
Additional text:
[top left, in rococo cartouche, a key, A-I, K-U, W, to the march routes of the Russian army, camps, troop positions, and retreats of the Turks:] EXPLICATION.
Annotations:
George III heading: Turky 1769.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Turky Nine Plans of the Operations of the War in Turky between the Russians and the Turks in 1769: engraved under the direction of J. v. Schley (These belong to the Histoire de la Guerre entre la Russie et la Turquie et particulierement de la Campagne de 1769. 8.vo (V.5, p.105). [The place mark entry is annotated in early black pencil:] Book not found BM? [A subsequent annotation in black pencil reads:] Lettered a-i, they are in their box. 4-iii 1987 CMB. [By ‘box’ in this context, is meant the old Solander boxes in which the maps were kept before the 1990s.]
Subject(s)
Pashkivtsy, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine (48°23'38"N 26°28'53"E)
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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