Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters L V G below; countermark: IV

Mark, stamped: 630

Condition: one fold line; broken along fold; brown staining. Verso: brown staining; induced discolouration; bottom left, water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label

Scale: 1:54,100 aprox. Scale bar: Echelle d'une Heure de Chemin [96 mm =].

35.4 x 41.0 cm (neatline)

51.5 x 41.5 cm (image)

54.6 x 44.6 cm (sheet)

Manuscript title:

PLAN de la Bataille de LAFFELT / donnée le 2. Juillet 1747, entre / l'Armée des Hauts-Alliés et celle de / France. [top left, in cartouche representing a partly scrolled paper]

Additional text:

[bottom, below map, in three columns in rectangular panel, a key, A-I, K-T, V, X-Z, to the positions and movements of the armies:] Renvoy.

Annotations:

George III heading: Battle of Laffeldt 2 July 1747.

Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand:] 101. (Verso) [top left, black pencil or ink, obscured by linen:] indistinct [and] 101; [left, along left edge, black pencil:] 23 [and] 101; [bottom right, black pencil or ink, crossed out in red pencil, obscured by white paper strip:] Laffeldt; [along bottom right edge, black pencil or ink, in Schultz's or Mason's hand, obscured by linen:] B Laffeldt July 2 1747; [bottom right, black pencil or ink, obscured by linen:] [?101]; [bottom centre, red pencil:] 24; [right, along right edge, black pencil:] 2 July.

George III catalogue entry:

Laffeldt Plan dessiné de la Bataille de Laffelt, donnée le 2 Juillet 1747 entre l'Armée des Hauts Alliés et celle de France, [in red ink:] par M.^r Schultz.

From the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), third son of George II; subsequently acquired by George III (1738-1820)