Choczim, 1769

PLAN / de la Bataille et dela Victoire / remportée sur les Turcs et Tartares / par l’Armée Imp:les de Russie / comandée par M:r le P:ce de Galitzin / le 29 Août 1769. [top right, above edge of border: ] N.o IV

Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, below edge border:] J. v. Schley, S. direx.

? Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (publisher)

Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, indistinct device below; countermark: three words/names, one above the other: PTOH / FIN / DAN[GOUMOIS]

Condition: three fold lines; brown discolouration to both sides (in the same place as for RCIN 733072.b: lower central fold line). Verso: induced discolouration

Scale: not stated. 1:38,600 approx.

34.7 x 47.0 cm (neatline)

36.5 x 47.6 cm (image)

37.3 x 49.3 cm (platemark)

38.6 x 50.4 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

PLAN / de la Bataille et dela Victoire / remportée sur les Turcs et Tartares / par l’Armée Imp:^les de Russie / comandée par M:^r le P:^ce de Galitzin / le 29 Août 1769. [top right, above edge of border: ] N.^o IV. [top right, in rococo cartouche]

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.]