The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Krefeld, 1758
PLAN, / de la Bataille, dans la Plaine de Creveld, / donné le 23me Jun: 1758 entre L’Armée Alliée de / Sa Maÿ: Brtiannique, sous les Ordres de M.r le Duc Ferdinand de Brunsvic, et L’Armée Francoi= /se, sous les Ordres de M.r le...
1767Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:46,900 approx. | RCIN 732063
A medley comprising a map represented in coup l'oeil with three views, a sheet of letterpress 'Nouvelles Ordinaires', and the sheet of poetry, lying on a map of Novia Scotia – the location of the siege and capture of Louisbourg by the British in 1758. All these artifacts are portrayed lying at random angles on a sheet of paper painted with stripes in different colours.
Die
The poem translates:
The most ardent wishes and hopes for the
highest presence of
Great and Mighty, when will your purple/crimson
As the, Great and Powerful, that is already dedicated to you
Additional text: [top right of map, in an ornamental cartouche incorporating flags, drums, cannon balls and a shield bearing the motto 'Tendit ad Ardua Virtus', a key, A-I, K-N, to the details on the map:] Explication. [Bottom right, a four-verse poem addressed to George III begins:] Die / Sehnlichsten Wünsche und Hoffnung zu der / Allerhöchsten Gegenwart / Ihro Königliche Majestät von Groß / Brittannien GEORGE den IIIten / in Dero Teutschen Landen …
Condition: one fold line; small piece missing, top left; small tears to bottom edge; surface dirt. Verso: heavy surface dirt.
J.F.C. Schilling (active 1737-67) (draughtsman) [bottom right of bottom left view:] Fait à Stade le 8me Maÿ / 1767 / par J.F.C. Schilling / Capitaine.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield suspending a beehive, the name C & I HONIG below; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 847
Condition: one fold line; small piece missing, top left; small tears to bottom edge; surface dirt. Verso: heavy surface dirt
Scale: not stated. 1:46,900 approx.
51.9 x 72.8 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN, / de la Bataille, dans la Plaine de Creveld, / donné le 23me Jun: 1758 entre L’Armée Alliée de / Sa Maÿ: Brtiannique, sous les Ordres de M.r le Duc Ferdinand de Brunsvic, et L’Armée Francoi= /se, sous les Ordres de M.r le Comte de Clermont. [bottom left of map]
Additional text:
[top right of map, in an ornamental cartouche incorporating flags, drums, cannon balls and a shield bearing the motto 'Tendit ad Ardua Virtus', a key, A-I, K-N, to the details on the map:] Explication. [Bottom right, a four-verse poem addressed to George III begins:] Die / Sehnlichsten Wünsche und Hoffnung zu der / Allerhöchsten Gegenwart / Ihro Königliche Majestät von Groß / Brittannien GEORGE den IIIten / in Dero Teutschen Landen …
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Crevelt 23 June 1758.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Crevelt. Plan dessiné de la Bataille dans la Plaine de Creveld, donné le 23 Juin 1758, entre l’Armée Alliée de sa Majesté Britannique sous les ordres du Duc Ferdinand de Brunswic, et l’Armée Francoise commandée par le comte de Clermont: par le Capitaine Schilling, 1767.
Subject(s)
Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°20'00"N 06°34'00"E)
Bibliographic reference(s)
D. Shawe-Taylor (ed.), The first Georgians Art & Monarchy 1714-1760, London, 2014, p. 133; illustrated on the endpapers.
Exhibited:
London, Queens Gallery: The first Georgians, (2014).
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