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
Dunkirk, 1742
Plan / du Camp et des Retranchements en avant / de Dunkerque. 1742
1742 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour; drawn on one sheet of paper; laid down on coarse linen; edged with cerise silk ribbon; one pink linen tie to top edge [no ties missing]; a brass ring for hanging missing from the top left and top right corners | Scale: 1:8,000 approx. | RCIN 728058
A detailed topographical map showing the locations and strengths of the batteries, the considerable extent of the destruction of fortifications and the part of the town which had been demolished, together with the positions of French encampments. There appears to be no explanation for the letters O-R which mark two sections across the main fortified lines.
Additional text: [left, down left side of map, a key, 1-17, to the significant military features on the map.]
Condition: eight fold lines; formerly folded to 16.0 x 13.8 cm; brown stains; surface dirt along bottom edge. Verso: heavily stained brown; heavy surface dirt along top edge, consistent with having been rolled and tied; several old tears repaired with paper on verso before being laid down on coarse linen.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: None visible
Condition: eight fold lines; formerly folded to 16.0 x 13.8 cm; brown stains; surface dirt along bottom edge. Verso: heavily stained brown; heavy surface dirt along top edge, consistent with having been rolled and tied; several old tears repaired with paper on verso before being laid down on coarse linen
Scale: 1:8,000 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de quatre Cents toises [96 mm =].
60.0 x 78.3 cm (neatline)
60.7 x 79.0 cm (image)
63.4 x 81.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan / du Camp et des Retranchements en avant / de Dunkerque. 1742. [top left]
Additional text:
[left, down left side of map, a key, 1-17, to the significant military features on the map.]
Annotations:
George III heading: [top left, black pencil:] Military [bottom right, black pencil:] Dunkirk 1742.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?] 4. (Verso) [top right, ink on a contemporary label, in Schultz's or Mason's hand?]: V/4; [bottom right, blue biro on a 1980s red-printed Royal Library label:] VIII 58 Dunkirk.
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
Title [ink:] Plan dessiné du Camp et des Retranchements en avant de Dunkerque 1742; [also in ink:] A Roll ..... [in black pencil:] 5 Table 2.d; [in black pencil, in a modern hand:] Big: sep. sequence. Old heading: Encampment near Dunkirk in 1742; [in black pencil, right of old heading, erased, in a modern hand:] Too big - folded.
Watermark: Budgen & Wilmott 1810.
Size: 47.1 x 32.7 cm.George III catalogue entry:
Dunkirk Plan dessiné du Camp et des Retranchements en avant de Dunkerque, 1742.
Subject(s)
Dunkirk, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (51°03'0"N& 02°22'00"E)
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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