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The Seven Years War (1756-63)

Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war

PIETER [PIERRE] DE HONDT (C.1696-1764)

Battle of Lobositz, 1756

PLAN DE LA BATAILLE DE LOWOSITZ, / donnée entre l’Armée PRUSSIENNE, commandée par le Roi en Personne, & l’Armée AUTRICHIENNE, sous les ordres du Feldt-Maréchal Broune, le 1 Octobre 1756

published 1758

Etching and engraving; letterpress text printed on one sheet of paper | Scale: 1:10,800 approx. | RCIN 731088

A map of the Battle of Lobositz, fought on 1 October 1756 between the Prussians, commanded by King Frederick the Great, and the Austrians, commanded by Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, resulting in a Prussian victory. Seven Years War (1756-63). The compass rose shows east to top, but the map is, in fact, oriented with north to top. The details are closely similar to those of RCIN 731087.

Additional text: [bottom of map, letterpress text, a key to the positions and movements of the troops and the symbols used to distinguish them: A-I, K-U, W; I-IX.]

Condition: two fold lines. Verso: brown discolouration; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch, fragments, shadow and ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
  • Pieter [Pierre] de Hondt (c.1696-1764) (publisher) [bottom of letterpress key:] A LA HAYE, CHEZ PIERRE DE HONDT, 1758.

    LWF von Oebschelwitz (active 1756-66) (draughtsman) [bottom right, engraved outside neatline:] de Oebschelwitz delin.

    Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver)

  • Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, a ‘4’ suspending the letters WR below; countermark: IV

    Condition: two fold lines. Verso: brown discolouration; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch, fragments, shadow and ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label

  • Scale: 1:10,800 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de 2500 pas, ou ¼ de Lieue / d'Allemagne [188 mm =].

    32.8 x 62.5 cm (neatline of map)

    33.6 x 62.9 cm (image of map)

    45.6 x 62.9 cm (image)

    35.2 x 63.9 cm (platemark)

    52.3 x 70.7 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    PLAN DE LA BATAILLE DE LOWOSITZ, / donnée entre l’Armée PRUSSIENNE, commandée par le Roi en Personne, & l’Armée AUTRICHIENNE, sous les ordres du Feldt-Maréchal Broune, le 1 Octobre 1756. [across top of map, outside neatline, letterpress text]

    Additional text:

    [bottom of map, letterpress text, a key to the positions and movements of the troops and the symbols used to distinguish them: A-I, K-U, W; I-IX.]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Battle of Lowositz 1 Oct.r 1756.

    Other annotations: none.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Lowositz Plan de la Bataille de Lowositz donnée entre l’Armée Prussienne commandée par le Roi, et l’Armée Autrichienne sous les ordres du Feldt Marechal Broune, le 1 Oct.re: par De Oebschelwitz. chez P. de Hondt, 1758.

  • Subject(s)

    Lovosice, Ústecký Kraj, Czechia (50°30'54"N 14°03'03"E)

Page revisions

  • 14 March 2024