The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Encampment at Afferde and Hastenbeck, 1757
PLAN / du Camp d’Afferden, occupé / le 12 Juillet 1757. par L’Armée d’Ob- / servation de Sa Majesté Britannique
1757 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:17,200 approx. | RCIN 732023
The attribution to A.H. du Plat is made on stylistic grounds.
Additional text: [down left side of map, below title, a key, A-C, to detached parts of the army, and a list of the regiments forming the Right and Left Wings.]
Condition: no fold lines; induced discolouration at corners of recto from paste on verso where the map has been laid down on paper; fragments of the backing paper remain.
? Anton Heinrich du Plat (1738-91) (draughtsman)
Watermark: C & I HONIG
Mark, stamped: 814
Condition: no fold lines; induced discolouration at corners of recto from paste on verso where the map has been laid down on paper; fragments of the backing paper remain
Scale: not stated. 1:17,200 approx.
19.1 x 23.4 cm (neatline)
19.2 x 31.7 cm (image)
21.1 x 33.4 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / du Camp d’Afferden, occupé / le 12 Juillet 1757. par L’Armée d’Ob- / servation de Sa Majesté Britannique. [top left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[down left side of map, below title, a key, A-C, to detached parts of the army, and a list of the regiments forming the Right and Left Wings.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Afferden 12 July 1757.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, ink:] 9. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, Mason’s hand]: 41.
George III catalogue entry:
Afferden Plan dessiné du Camp d’Afferden occupé le 12 Juillet 1757 par l’Armée d’Observation de Sa Majesté Britannique: [in red ink:] par le Capitaine du Plat. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Afferde, Lower Saxony, Germany (52°05'57"N 09°24'28"E)
Hastenbeck, Lower Saxony, Germany (52°04'44"N 09°25'07"E)
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