Map of Dunkirk, 1742 (Dunkirk, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) 51°03'0"N 02°22'00"E

Anonymous (cartographer)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily

Conditions: four fold lines. Verso: surface dirt on outer panel of fold; bottom, right of centre: staining from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label; bottom, small repair with strip of paper; further repair with paper along top edge, possibly made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries.

Scale: not stated. 1:15,600 approx.

35.7 x 50.5 cm (neatline)

37.3 x 50.6 cm (image)

38.1 x 51.7 cm (platemark)

38.7 x 57.3 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

PLAN DU RETRANCHEMENT ET CAMPEMENT DE TROUPES FRANCOISES AUX ENVIRON DE LA VILLE DE DUNKERQUE OU SE TROUVE / MARQUE LES ECLUSES QUI DONNE L'EAU DANS LE FOSSE DU RETRANCHEMENT, AINSI QUE LE DIT OUVRAGE A ETTÉ FAIT A^o=M.DCC.XLII. [top, outside border]

Annotations:

George III heading: Encampment near Dunkirk in 1742.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, ink, in Schultz's hand?:] Netherlands 6.b [crossed out in black pencil]; [top right, black pencil:] 6.; [bottom right, ink:] D.a [the ‘a’ is scraped out]; [bottom right, black pencil:] 31 [crossed out in black pencil]; [bottom right, ink, mostly erased:] [6.^b].; [bottom, left of centre, black pencil:] 6; [centre right, red pencil:] 6; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil:] 7/41.

George III catalogue entry:

Dunkirk Plan du Retranchement et Campement des Troupes Françoises aux Environs de Dunkerque, avec les Ecluses qui donnent l'eau dans le fossé du Retanchement, faites en 1742. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]