War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Battle of Fontenoy, 1745
Plan / de la Bataille de Fontenoy gagnée / Par Les Troupes du Roÿ Le 11 Maÿ 1745. / Approuvé Par M.sr Le Marechal De Saxe, / Envoié Au Roÿ de Prusse, /...
1745 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper; hand-coloured | Scale: 1:15,200 approx. | RCIN 729106
A crudely engraved map showing the first stages of the battle, when the British and Hanoverian troops were being raked by fire from the batteries of Eu and Fontenoy, before they had formed into a square on advancing through the gap between Fontenoy and the Bois de Barry. The abbatis between the two redoubts of Eu is clearly depicted, together with the sunken roads between Fontenoy and the Bois de Barry, and the clearing in the woods behind the Notre dame au Bois, from which vantage point Louis XV and the Dauphin watched the battle. The flood plain of the Scheldt is clearly marked by close hatching.
Additional text: [left, below title, down left side of map in rectangular panel, a key, 1-28, to named brigades, regiments, redoubts, and a key to the colours used to distinguish the troops:] Renvoÿ.
Condition: no fold lines; creased; top right, small tear. Verso: induced discolouration and offsetting from another copy of the same map, perhaps from lying in a pile of newly printed maps at the printers; patches of red and blue colour; top left, water-stained patch, shadow and remnants from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
André Joseph Panckoucke (1703-53) (publisher) [bottom centre, below edge of border:] A Lille Chez A.J. Panckoucke Proche L'Hotel De Ville.
Morel (active 1745) (engraver and printer) [bottom right, below edge of border:] Gravé et Imprimé Chez Morel Vis A Vis Les Recolets.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys; countermark: IV
Condition: no fold lines; creased; top right, small tear. Verso: induced discolouration and offsetting from another copy of the same map, perhaps from lying in a pile of newly printed maps at the printers; patches of red and blue colour; top left, water-stained patch, shadow and remnants from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:15,200 approx. Scale bar: Echelle De 600 Toises [77 mm =].
27.9 x 29.7 cm (neatline)
29.8 x 40.9 cm (image)
30.5 x 41.6 cm (platemark)
34.5 x 45.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
Plan / de la Bataille de Fontenoy gagnée / Par Les Troupes du Roÿ Le 11 Maÿ 1745. / Approuvé Par M.sr Le Marechal De Saxe, / Envoié Au Roÿ de Prusse, / Disposition Avant Le Combat. [top left]
Additional text:
Renvoÿ. [left, below title, down left side of map in rectangular panel, a key, 1-28, to named brigades, regiments, redoubts, and a key to the colours used to distinguish the troops]
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Fontenoy 11 May 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 19; [centre, red pencil:] 19.
George III catalogue entry:
Fontenoy Plan de la Bataille de Fontenoy gagnée par les Troupes du Roy le 11 Mai 1745: par Morel, Chez Pankouke.
Subject(s)
Fontenoy, Walloon Region, Belgium (50°34'03"N 03°28'24"E)
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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