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 border:] J. v. Schley, Sculp. 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: 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:] N^o. 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.]