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

WILLIAM ROY (1726-90)

Cherbourg, 1758 (Cherbourg-Octeville, Basse-Normandy, France) 49°38'23"N 01°36'58"W

c.1758

Pen and ink on paper | 32.6 x 20.5 cm (sheet) | RCIN 732066.c

Orders which accompany the map of Cherbourg and the report at RCIN 732066.a and b. Seven Years War (1756-63).

Condition: four fold lines.

William Roy (1726-90) (draughtsman)
Watermark: The crowned monogram GR, wreath to each side, all within a circle

Mark, stamped: 851

Condition: four fold lines
32.6 x 20.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:

[Orders for the day. Headed ‘Essex June 29:^th off Cherbourg / Parole – Sennegal’.]

Annotations:

George III heading: Cherbourg 29-30 June 1758.

Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, erased:] Cherbourg [and an indecipherable number]. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, in Mason's hand?]: VIII/57.

George III catalogue entry:

Cherbourg A drawn Plan and three views of the Town and Environs of Cherbourg, relative to the attempt against that place under the command of the Duke of Marlborough, on the 29.^th and 30.^th of June 1758: by W.^m Roy, with his letter giving an Account of the Expedition and inclosing the order of the day of the 29.^th of June 1758.
Subject(s)
Cherbourg-Octeville, Basse-Normandy, France (49°38'23"N 01°36'58"W)