The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Battle of Liegnitz, 1760
1760 or laterPencil, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:43,800 approx. | RCIN 733018
A topographical map showing roads, physical features such as rivers, waterbodies, relief and scrub and woodland on which the troop positions are superimposed. See also RCIN 733017. Both maps show similar detail.
Additional text: [top right, a key, A-I, K-R, to the disposition of the troops and the three positions of the armies during the battle:] Renvoÿ.
Condition: six fold lines; worn along fold lines; brown stains to both sides. Verso: ink smudges; heavy surface dirt on outside fold panels.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: A robed figure [a bishop?] wearing a mitre, holding a crozier in right hand and a cylindrical-shaped object in the left, standing on a plinth above the letter G F M
Mark, stamped: 914
Condition: six fold lines; worn along fold lines; brown stains to both sides. Verso: ink smudges; heavy surface dirt on outside fold panels
Scale: not stated. 1:43,800 approx.
32.1 x 41.3 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Additional text:
[top right, a key, A-I, K-R, to the disposition of the troops and the three positions of the armies during the battle:] Renvoÿ.
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Lignitz 15 August 1760.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, red pencil:] 13/95 [the ‘95’ is crossed out in black pencil]; [top left, black pencil:] XVI/70; [top right, black pencil, erased:] [Lignitz].
George III catalogue entry:
Lignitz Plan dessiné de la Bataille de Lignitz, le 15 Aout 1760.
Subject(s)
Legnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (51°12'36"N 16°09'42"E)
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