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The Seven Years War (1756-63)

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

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BAUER (1731-83)

Map of Hoya, 1758 (Hoya, Lower Saxony, Germany) 52°48'00"N 09°09'00"E

1765

Etching and engraving; printed on paper; hand coloured | Scale: 1:88,900 approx. | RCIN 732001.j

A map of the passage of the River Aller by the Allied army, and of the River Weser at Hoya by a detachment of the right column of the Allied army under the command of the Erbprinz of Brunswick in February 1758. Seven Years War (1756-63). Oriented with north to top (cardinal points).

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Erbprinz of Brunswick (1735-1806), was the father of Caroline, wife of the Prince Regent (George IV). His description of the crossing of the Weser at Hoya, for which George II presented him with a sword of honour, is given in Fitzmaurice, (1901), p.10, and is repeated in Savory, (1966), p.60.

Additional text: [bottom left, in rococo cartouche, an account of the movements of the Allied army and a key, A-I, K-T, V:] EXPLICATION [text begins:] L'Armée arriva le 21 de Fev: 1758 …

Condition: no fold lines; crisp image from what is probably an early pull from the copperplates; guarded into volume.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731-83) (compiler and draughtsman) [below title, in title cartouche:] F.W. de Baur.

    Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver)

    Pierre Gosse Jr (1718-94) (publisher)

    Daniel Pinet (active 1762-86) (publisher) [bottom centre of map, outside border:] Gravé Sous la Direction de J.V. Schley, et Publié à La Haye aux Depens de PIERRE GOSSE junior & DANIEL PINET, MDCCLXV.

    Subject(s)

    Army-France
    Army-GB
  • Watermark: The monogram PvL

    Condition: no fold lines; crisp image from what is probably an early pull from the copperplates; guarded into volume

  • Scale: 1:88,900 approx. Scale bar: Echelle d’un Lieu au ½ Mil [50 mm =].

    54.6 x 49.3 cm (neatline)

    55.8 x 49.7 cm (image)

    56.5 x 51.1 cm (platemark)

    64.7 x 93.4 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    PLAN / du Passage de l’ALLER / et de l’Affaire de HOYA / avec les MOUVEMENS / de l’Armée alliée aprés ce Passage / jusqu’à la prise / de NIENBOURG. [top right, in rococo cartouche]

    Additional text:

    [bottom left, in rococo cartouche, an account of the movements of the Allied army and a key, A-I, K-T, V:] EXPLICATION [text begins:] L'Armée arriva le 21 de Fev: 1758 …

    Annotations:

    (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil:] 10.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Germany Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne entre la Grande Britagne et la France depuis l’an 1757 jusqu’a l’an 1762: dessiné par le Colonel F.W. de Bawr: chez Gosse et Pinet, 1769. 7 feuilles; avec 18 Plans des Sieges et Batailles donnés depuis 1757 jusqu’a 1762. Fol.

  • Subject(s)

    Hoya, Lower Saxony, Germany (52°48'00"N 09°09'00"E)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    E. Fitzmaurice, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick: an historical study, 1735-1806, London, New York and Bombay, 1901.

    R. Savory, His Britannic Majesty’s army in Germany during the Seven Years War, Oxford, 1966.

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  • 21 July 2024