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, 1747
CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE LA HAYE LEYDEN ET DELFT [and] CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS D'UTRECHT GOUDE ET WOERDEN CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE AMERSFOORT CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE ZUTPHEN ET...
1746 or laterEngraving; hand-coloured; twenty-four sheets cut into forty-eight panels, laid down on two pieces of linen, stitched together | Scale: 1:130,000 approx. | RCIN 730086
The map covers the area of the southern Netherlands and north-eastern Belgium, and part of North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly from The Hague (52°04'36"N 04°17'55"E) and Leyden (Leiden 52°09'30"N 04°29'35"E) in the north-west to Zutphen (52°08'18"N 06°12'05"E) in the north east, and from Halle (50°44'01"N 04°14'04"E) in the south-west to south of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen 50°46'35"N 06°05'00"E) in the south-east.
The manuscript annotations showing the locations of encampments of the Allied army are in the hand of George Augustus Schultz, Cumberland's draughtsman.
Condition: crumpled and worn around the edges. Verso: heavy surface dirt along left edge, consistent with the map having been stored as a roll; right of centre, a heavily water-stained patch, perhaps from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
? George Fricx (active 1740s) (cartographer)
? George Augustus Schultz (active 1734-49) (annotator)
? Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)
Watermark: None visible
Condition: crumpled and worn around the edges. Verso: heavy surface dirt along left edge, consistent with the map having been stored as a roll; right of centre, a heavily water-stained patch, perhaps from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:130,000 approx.
126.8 x 117.6 cm (image and sheet, including gussets)
Printed title:
CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE LA HAYE LEYDEN ET DELFT [and] CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS D'UTRECHT GOUDE ET WOERDEN [and] CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE AMERSFOORT [and] CARTE PARTICULIERE DES ENVIRONS DE ZUTPHEN ET DOESBURG. [multi-sheet map, joined to make one map, sheet titles at top, left to right]
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
Title [ink:] An engraved Map of the Duchy of Brabant and part of Holland, with the Encampments of the / Allied Army in 1747: [in red ink:] by Schultz [in brown ink:] MS. 24 small sheets / A Roll ... [black pencil:] 1 Table 1.st / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] Oversize / [George III heading, red ink:] Encampments in Brabant 1747 / [black pencil:] Other Copies of this Map. Geography CIII/29.
Watermark: Budgen & Wilmott 1810.
Size: 46.9 x 32.5 cm (sheet).Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments in Brabant 1747.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, ink:] Netherlands & Theatre BRABANT with the Incampments of Allyed Army 1747. [top right, black pencil:] 80. [top right, below ink inscriptions, red pencil:] 3. [top right, below ink annotation, a red-printed Royal Library label, ball point pen:] X 86 Brabant.
George III catalogue entry:
Brabant An engraved Map of the Duchy of Brabant and part of Holland; with the Encampments of the Allied Army in 1747: [in red ink:] by Schultz. MS. 24 small sheets.
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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