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

Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, below ege of border:] J. v. Schleÿ S. direc.

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

Subject(s)

Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, indistinct device below; countermark: cropped and indistinct

Condition: eight fold lines. Verso: some offsetting; surface dirt along fold lines; induced discolouration

Scale: not stated. 1:38,000 approx.

45.3 x 65.1 cm (neatline)

46.3 x 65.7 cm (image)

cropped (platemark)

47.0 x 66.5 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

Affaire du 22 Juillet v : st : 1769. avec quarante mille / Tartares qui étant venus au secours de CHOCZIM, / furent repoussés par l’Armée Russe, aussi bien que la / Sortie des Turcs enfermes dans la Ville. [top right, above edge of border:] N.^o II. [top left, 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.]