Map of Guéthary, 1638 (Guéthary, Aquitaine, France) 43°25ʹ22ʺN 01°36ʹ39ʺW

Anonymous (cartographer)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Map: horn in shield, crown above, a ‘4’ suspending the letters WR below. Backing paper: none visible. Mount: none.

Mark, stamped: 5

Condition: twelve fold lines, suggesting the map had been folded concertina-wise, or, had been rolled and then flattened while still rolled up; worn, torn, with surface dirt along the fold lines; partly laid down on paper before being mounted. Pressure marks from the mounts of items which were below this map in a different collection are present on the verso

Scale: not stated (scale)

32.4 x 22.0 cm (image and sheet)

32.0 x 21.7 cm (neatline)

39.0 x 27.9 cm (mount)

Printed title:

Plan de Gattarj et de lordre de Lattaque / des Vaiseaulx espagnolz qui ont estez tous / brulez et eschouez le 22.e de Aoust 1638 / par larméé [sic] du Roy commandéé par M. / Larchevesque & Bourdeaux [left, in a rectangular panel]

Additional text:

[left, following on from title, in title panel, a key, A-H.]

Annotations:

George III heading: Naval Engagement in the Bay of Gatary near Bayonne 22 August 1638.

Other annotations: none.

George III catalogue entry:

Gatary Plan dessiné de Gattari (pres de Bayonne) et de l’Ordre de l’Attaque des Vaisseaux Espagnols qui ont etés tous brulés et echoués le 22.^e d’Aoust 1638 par l’Armée du Roy commandée par l’Archevesque de Bourdeaux.

Bibliographic reference(s)

S. Thion, French armies of the Thirty Years' War, Havertown PA 2013, p. 26