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Russo-Turkish Wars

The wars of 1735–9, 1768–74 and 1787–92

JAKOB VAN DER SCHLEY (1715-79)

Choczim, 1769

PLAN / DE LA FORTERESSE DE CHOCZIM EN MOLDAVIE, / avec les environs de 300 toises à la ronde levé après la prise de cette place en 1769. [top right, above border:] No. VI

1773

Etching and engraving; printed from one copperplate on two pieces of paper, joined | Scale: 1:2,900. | RCIN 733072.f

A plan of Choczim as at September 1769. Russo-Turkish War (1768-74). Oriented with west to top.

A large-scale plan, surveyed after the town was taken by the Russians, showing in great detail the structure of the fortified town and the locations and outlines of the buildings.

Additional text: [bottom left, in rococo cartouche, a key, A-I, K-W, to the principal buildings and batteries, etc:] EXPLICATION.

Map no. VI 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-e, g-i for the other maps.

Condition: seven fold lines. Verso: some offsetting; induced discolouration.
  • Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, below border:] J. v. Schley, Sculp. direx.

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

  • Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, indistinct device below; countermark: three words/names, one above the other: TOH[?A] S [or and ampersand] / FIN / DANGOUMOIS

    Condition: seven fold lines. Verso: some offsetting; induced discolouration

  • Scale: 1:2,900. Scale bar: ECHELLE Le Pouce d'Angleterre est divisé en 20 parties [47 mm =] 70 Toises.

    46.1 x 61.0 cm (neatline)

    47.4 x 61.6 cm (image)

    cropped (platemark)

    47.8 x 62.7 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    PLAN / DE LA FORTERESSE DE CHOCZIM EN MOLDAVIE, / avec les environs de 300 toises à la ronde levé après la prise de cette place en 1769. [top right, above border:] No. VI. [top centre, in rococo cartouche]

    Additional text:

    [bottom left, in rococo cartouche, a key, A-I, K-W, to the principal buildings and batteries, etc:] 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)

    Khotyn, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine (48°30'24"N 26°29'28")

Page revisions

  • 14 March 2024