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The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Map of the Battle of Vellinghausen, 1761 (Vellinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) 51°39'47"N 07°59'12"E
c.1761Ink and watercolour on thin paper | Scale: 1:9,500 approx. | RCIN 733035.b
The attribution to David Dundas is made on stylistic grounds. At the time of the battle he was with the 15th Light Dragoons who were deployed in Germany and whose Colonel was George Augustus Elliott. The table of regiments on this map shows that 'Elliots' was serving in Lord Granby's Corps and Dundas was present at this battle. This is a detailed topographical map of the battlefield area extending from the River Lippe in the north-east to Kirk Denkern (Dinker) on the River Aos (Ahse) in the south-west. The positions of the battalions and squadrons are marked and each is named. Colonel Keppel was at the time of this action a Colonel in the 1st Foot Guards.
This map is a near identical, but rough, copy of RCIN 733035.a; there is a slight difference in the table of regiments where, on this map, Elliot's (Dundas's own regiment) is shown as deploying in Prince Anhalt's Corps as well as Granby's, instead of solely under Granby's.
Condition: several fold lines; piece cut off, bottom left: diagonal cut; triangular tear, right of centre; brown stains.
? Sir David Dundas (1735-1820) (draughtsman)
Subject(s)
Army-PrussiaArmy-HanoverArmy-Allied army (Seven Years' War, 1756-63)Army-GBArmy-FranceWatermark: None
Mark, stamped: 932A
Condition: several fold lines; piece cut off, bottom left: diagonal cut; triangular tear, right of centre; brown stains
Scale: 1:9,500 approx. Scale bar: 800 Yards [77 mm =].
31.7 x 53.8 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Wellinghausen 16 July 1761.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil, erased:] Wellinghausen; [top left, black pencil, erased:] XVI/91-b.
George III catalogue entry:
Wellinghausen A drawn Plan of the position of the Allied Army the 15.th and 16.th of July 1761, the day of the Battle of Fellinghausen: with a copy of D.o on thin paper (from Colonel Keppel).
Subject(s)
Vellinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51°39'47"N 07°59'12"E)
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