The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Map of encampment at Minden, Dankersen and Holzhausen, 1757 (Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 52°17'00"N 08°55'00"E; (Dankersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 52°18'00"N 08°58'00"E; (Holzhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
c.1757Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on brown linen | Scale: not stated | RCIN 732020
The tentative attribution to G.J. du Plat is made on stylistic grounds. The nationality of the regiments is indicated by colour: Prussians (black), Hanoverians (red), Hessians (blue), Brunswick (yellow). See also RCINs 732200.o and q.
Condition: four fold lines; surface dirt.
? Georg Josua du Plat (1722-95) (surveyor and draughtsman)
Subject(s)
Army-HanoverArmy-HesseArmy-PrussiaArmy-BrunswickWatermark: None
Mark, stamped: 811
Condition: four fold lines; surface dirt
Scale: not stated
33.7 x 21.9 cm (image and neatline)
35.1 x 23.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Les deux Camps du 16 et du 26 de Juin, de L’Armée de sa Majesté Britannique près de Minden / 1757. [across top of map, inside neatline]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments at Holzhausen 16, and Danckersen 26 June 1757.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] [13/19]; [bottom left, black pencil:] [XV/6?].
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Plan dessiné des deux Camps de l’Armée de Sa Majesté Britannique a Holzhausen le 16, et a Danckersen le 26 Juin 1757, pres de Minden. [The same entry appears under the headings Holzhausen and Danckersen.]
Subject(s)
Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (52°17'00"N 08°55'00"E)
Dankersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (52°18'00"N 08°58'00"E)
Holzhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°47'22"N 09°08'09"E)
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