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The Seven Years War (1756-63)

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

PIETER [PIERRE] DE HONDT (C.1696-1764)

Pirna, 1756

BLOCUS DE L’ARMÉE SAXONNE DANS SON CAMP DE PIRNA, / Continué jus’quà reddition pendant sept semaines, par le ROI DE PRUSSE, en 1756

published 1758

Etching and engraving; letterpress text printed on one sheet of paper | Scale: 1:25,700 approx. | RCIN 731090

A map of the blockade by the Prussian army of the Saxon army encampment near Pirna from 10 September to the surrender of the Saxons on 15 October 1756. Seven Years War (1756-63). Oriented with north-east to top (compass rose).

Additional text: [below map, letterpress text, a key to the positions and movements of the troops and the symbols used to distinguish them: I-V, A-I, K, 1-10.]

Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
  • Pieter [Pierre] de Hondt (c.1696-1764) (publisher) [bottom, below explanatory text, letterpress:] A LA HAYE Chez PIERRE DE HONDT, 1758.

    LWF von Oebschelwitz (active 1756-66) (draughtsman) [bottom right, outside neatline:] L. W. F. Von Oebschelwitz delin.

    Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, outside neatline:] J. V. Schley direx.

  • Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the letters VD L below; countermark: I VILLEDARY

    Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt; bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label

  • Scale: 1:25,700 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de cinq mille pas, ou / demi lieuē d'Allemagne [158 mm =].

    23.7 x 31.7 cm (neatline of map)

    24.3 x 32.0 cm (image of map)

    25.2 x 33.2 cm (platemark)

    34.5 x 35.2 cm (image)

    42.9 x 53.5 cm (sheet)

  • Printed title:

    BLOCUS DE L’ARMÉE SAXONNE DANS SON CAMP DE PIRNA, / Continué jus’quà reddition pendant sept semaines, par le ROI DE PRUSSE, en 1756. [across top of map, outside neatline, letterpress text]

    Additional text:

    [below map, letterpress text, a key to the positions and movements of the troops and the symbols used to distinguish them: I-V, A-I, K, 1-10.]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Pirna 15 Oct.r 1756.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, red pencil: indistinct:] 16 [?Octer].

    George III catalogue entry:

    Pirna Plan du Blocus de l’Armée Saxonne dans son Camp de Pirna continué jusq’a reddition par le Roi de Prusse, le 15 Oct.re 1756: par de Oebschelwitz, chez P. de Hondt, 1758.

  • Subject(s)

    Pirna, Saxony, Germany (50°57'30"N 13°56'13"E)

Page revisions

  • 14 March 2024