The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Sketch of Hagenah, 1757 (Hagenah, Lower Saxony, Germany) 53°33'00"N 09°20'00"E
1757 or laterPencil, pen and ink on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx. | RCIN 732036
The attribution to A.H. du Plat is made on stylistic grounds.
Condition: two fold lines; ink smudged; bottom right corner rounded; bottom left: the shadow and ghosting of the image of from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label: VOL [V]III / 50.
? Anton Heinrich du Plat (1738-91) (draughtsman)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys
Mark, stamped: 825
Condition: two fold lines; ink smudged; bottom right corner rounded; bottom left: the shadow and ghosting of the image of from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label: VOL [V]III / 50
Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx.
11.5 x 26.8 cm (image)
22.4 x 34.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title. [top right, an explanation of a symbol used on the map:] Der Weg welchen die 5 Regimenter Infan- / terie so nahe bey Lutgen Hagenau campiret / stunden, genommen haben.
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Hagenau 11 Sep. 1757.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil:] 20. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, Mason's hand:] 50; [top right, ink:] Two ways to pass the Defile of Hagen[au]; [centre, red pencil:] 50.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment A drawn Plan of the Encampment of five Regiments of Foot of His Majesty’s Army at Hagenau near Stade, the 11.th of Sept.r 1757. [The same entry appears under the heading Hagenau.]
Subject(s)
Hagenah, Lower Saxony, Germany (53°33'00"N 09°20'00"E)
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