Map of Choczim, 1769 (Khotyn, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine) 48°30'24"N 26°29'28"

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

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

Subject(s)

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

Condition: three fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration

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

34.8 x 47.0 cm (neatline)

36.5 x 47.7 cm (image)

37.4 x 49.4 cm (platemark)

38.6 x 50.6 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

PLAN / dé l’Attaque et dela dé = / = faite des Turcs par les / trouppes Imp:^les de Russie / dans la nuit du 6 au 7 - / Sept:^bre de l’Année 1769. / après qu’ils furent coupés / deleur camp, leur pont sur / le Dnéster étant rompu / par l’accroissement des eaux. [top right, above edge of border:] N.^o V. [bottom 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.]