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
Brabant, 1746
DUCHE / DE BRABANT / EVECHÉ ET PRINCIPAUTÉ DE LIEGE / Contenant aussi / Partie des Duchés de Juliers de Gueldres et de Limbourg / et Partie du Comté d’Hollande / DRESSÉ Sur les Memoires de...
1746Engraving; printed from eight copperplates on eight sheets of paper; hand-coloured; manuscript annotations in red, orange, blue, green, and yellow ink on printed base; blank margins of map coloured yellow; dissected into thirty-two pieces and mounted on three pieces of coarse linen stitched together (indistinct dark blue linen stamp and numbers on cloth) | Scale: 1:114,000 approx. | RCIN 730001
A map, with manuscript annotations, of Brabant showing the march routes and encampments of the Allied army during 1746. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top.
This map appears to comprise sheets 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, of Crepy's republication, for the market created by the War of the Austrian Succession, of Eugene Henri Fricx's Carte des Pays-Bas et des frontières de France (1703-12) to which his nephew, George Fricx, added four northern sheets sometime during the war, two of which form the basis of the northern part of this assemblage. The map has been used as a base on which to plot the movements of the armies in 1746. The annotations are all by François Hancko.
Etienne Louis Crepy (c.1700-59) (publisher) [following on from title:] Se Vend APARIS Chez Crepy rue S.t Jacques a l’Image S.t Pierre; [bottom right of scales:] avec Priv. du Roy M.D.CC.XLVI.
Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)
George Fricx (active 1740s) (cartographer)
François Hancko (active 1741-8) (annotator) [Author of manuscript annotations, bottom right, bottom of manuscript title:] fait par Hancko Ingenieur au servis de sa Majesté Britanique
Watermark: None visible
Condition: folded along gussets; crumpled along edges. Verso: surface dirt to top left four panels indicating that the map was stored folded to 52.3 x 68.2 cm; top left, water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:114,000 approx. Scale bars: Echelles Lieues d’un heures de Chemin [114 mm =] 2; Milles d’Angleterre [114 mm =] 5; Lieues Communes de France [78 mm =] 2; Lieues de Brabant [96 mm =] 2.
194.5 x 136.2 cm (including gussets, image and sheet). Wider at the top; maximum width 194.5 cm (whole object)
Printed title:
DUCHE / DE BRABANT / EVECHÉ ET PRINCIPAUTÉ DE LIEGE / Contenant aussi / Partie des Duchés de Juliers de Gueldres et de Limbourg / et Partie du Comté d’Hollande / DRESSÉ Sur les Memoires de Eugene Henry Friex / et Augmenté sur les Observations les plus nouvelles. [top right, in a rococo cartouche]
Manuscript title:
Carte avec toutes les Campements de L’Armeé / des Allieé, avec la Bataille de Raucoux / Sous le Comandement du Duc Charle de / Loraine L’Anneé 1746 / L’on peût distinguer toutes le campements par les / chifres et datte, les chifres sont mise on l’Armeé / a fait le front / Les Marche Routes sont en bleu / Les Retranchements et trancheés devant les Villes / sont en Rouge et Repassé avec jaune / Les Nations sont distinguéz par les Couleurs. / Les Anglais en Rouge. Les Hanoveriens en jaune Les Hessois en pael bleu, Les Autriches en Verd. / Les Hollandois en Orange. Les Francois en bleu. [bottom right, in a manuscript rectangular panel, with yellow border, in red ink in François Hancko's hand]
Insets:
[across top of map, irregular sizes, contained within a rococco border]
ANVERS [with an alphabetical key, A-I, K-V, X-Y, to places in the city]; scale: 1:17,350 approx; Echelle De trois Cent Soixente et quinse Toises [41 mm =]; size: 26.0 [longest extent] x 12.2 cm (neatline).
BRUXELLES [with a short history of the city]; size: 17.5 [longest extent] x 19.6 cm (neatline).
BREDA [outline of fortifications only; with a short history]; size: 15.0 [longest extent] x 13.4 cm (neatline).
BOIS LE DUC [outline of fortifications only; key, A-E, to places on the map, with a short history]; size: 16.2 [longest extent] x 10.6 cm (neatline).
LEAU size: 5.8 x 10.0 cm (neatline).
MAESTRICHT [with key, A-E, 1-2, to places on the map], scale: 1:17,718 approx; Echelle de trois Cent Toises [33 mm =]; size: 12.0 [longest extent] x 10.0 cm (neatline).
MALINES [outline only; with short history]; size: 12.1 x 17.0 cm (neatline).
BERGH-OP-ZOOM [outline only; with short history]; size: 6.7 [longest extent] x 17.0 cm (neatline).
RURMONDE [street layout with three-dimensional representations of churches; with short history]; scale: 1:58,470 approx; Echelle de 600. Toises [20 mm =]; size: 10.5 x 17.1 cm (neatline).
LIEGE [street layout; key, A-I, K-P, to places on the map].Additional text:
On trouve aussi Chés le dit Crepy du même auteur le Comté de Flandre en 5. / feuiles le Comté de Hainaut en 3. feuilles avec les plans fortifié des / Villes que contienent c’est provinces / et la Carte détaillé des / Pays Bas / en 15. / feuilles. [bottom left of scale bars, in title cartouche]
Annotations:
George III heading: Brabant X/1 1746 [bottom right, black pencil].
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, ink, crossed out in red pencil:] Netherlands & Theatre. [top left, another manuscript title label with black and yellow edging, written in Hancko's hand in red ink; same text as transcribed above.]
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
[Title, ink:] Friex's Map of the Duchy of Brabant; with the Encampments of the Allied army, and the Battle / of Raucoux, under the command of Prince Charles of Lorraine, 1746: by Hancko MS. / A Roll ..... [Pencil:] 1 Table 1.st / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] oversize / X/1 [red ink:] Encampments in Brabant 1746 / [black pencil:] Other Copies of this Map, Geography CIII/26.
Watermark: JWhatman [/] 1811.
Size: 46.9 x 32.5 cm (sheet).George III catalogue entry:
Brabant. Friex’s Map of the Duchy of Brabant; with the Encampments of the Allied army and the Battle of Raucoux, under the command of Prince Charles of Lorraine. 1746; by Hancko. MS [also entered under ‘Encampments’].
Subject(s)
Belgium (North Brabant, Netherlands)
Bibliographic reference(s)
C. Koeman. Atlantes Neerlandici : bibliography of terrestrial maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880, vol. 2, Leiden 1967-1985, pp.109-110
M. van Egmond, Covens & Mortier. A map publishing house in Amsterdam 1685-1866. Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography 8, Houten, 2009, pp.120-22
P. van der Krogt, Advertenties voor kaarten, atlassen, globes e.d. in Amsterdamse kranten 1621-1811, Houten, 1985
C. Lemoine-Isabeau, Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à la fin du XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Brussels, 1984 pp.83-95
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