The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Key and scale measurement
1757 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:39,600 approx. | RCIN 732201.ai
Scale to the maps, and the key to the conventional signs used to represent the troops. The troop rectangles are coloured according to nationality: Hanoverian (red), Prussian (green), Brunswickian (yellow), Hessian (blue), French (lilac).
This is the bottom part of two maps drawn on the same sheet of paper. For the top map, see RCIN 732201.ah.
In: LA CAMPAGNE EN ALLEMAGNE 1757. For more information on this volume, see RCINs 732200 and 732201.
Georg Josua du Plat (1722-95) (surveyor and draughtsman)
Subject(s)
Army-HanoverArmy-BrunswickArmy-HesseWatermark: C & I HONIG
Condition: no fold lines
Scale: 1:39,600 approx. Scale bar: Echelle d’une heure de chemin, pour tous les Plans de ce Receuil. Une heure de Chemin 6000. pas Communs. [123 mm =].
16.9 x 21.0 cm (image)
36.8 x 24.0 cm (whole object)
Manuscript title:
Remarques. [centre, the map number is in a small rococo cartouche]
Annotations:
None
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment La Campagne 1757 de l’Armée de Sa Majesté Britannique en Allemagne: par le Lieut. Col. G.J. du Plat. MS. Fol. [The same entry appears under the heading Germany.]
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