The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Map of the siege of Schweidnitz, 1757 (Świdnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland) 50°50'37"N 16°29'18"E
1758Etched and engraved map and letterpress text printed on the same sheet of paper | Scale: not stated. 1:20,000 approx. | RCIN 732040.b
Additional text: [below map, outside platemark, letterpress, a key, A-I, K-T, to the detail on the map.]
Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt on fold line; bottom centre: water-stained patch and fragment from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Pieter [Pierre] de Hondt (c.1696-1764) (publisher) [bottom, below text, letterpress:] A LA HAYE, CHEZ PIERRE DE HONDT, 1758.
LWF von Oebschelwitz (active 1756-66) (draughtsman) [bottom right, between border and platemark:] L.W.F. de Oebschelwitz, delin.
Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, between border and platemark:] J.V. Schley, direx
Subject(s)
Army-AustriaWatermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield suspending a beehive, the name C & I HONIG below; countermark: the crowned monogram GR
Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt on fold line; bottom centre: water-stained patch and fragment from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: not stated. 1:20,000 approx.
30.3 x 32.9 cm (neatline)
40.1 x 33.2 cm (image)
32.4 x 34.3 cm (platemark)
30.9 x 33.2 cm (image of map)
42.1 x 52.7 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
PLAN / du Siège formé par les AUTRICHIENS devant la Ville de SCHWEIDNITZ, en Silesie; en 1757. [across top of map, outside platemark, letterpress]
Additional text:
[below map, outside platemark, letterpress, a key, A-I, K-T, to the detail on the map.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Schweidnitz 12 Nov. 1757.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil, erased and partly illegible:] nov. 11th [?].
George III catalogue entry:
Schweidnitz Plan du Siege formé par les Autrichiens devant la Ville de Schweidnitz en Silesie, prise le 12 Nov.re 1757: par L.W.F. de Oebschelwitz, chez P. de Hondt, 1758.
Subject(s)
Świdnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (50°50'37"N 16°29'18"E)
Page revisions
5 June 2024
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