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
Encampment at Ath, 1745
c.1745Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on thin paper | Scale: 1:22,200 approx. | RCIN 729111
This sketch is executed mainly in pencil with red colouring applied to the British brigades and the Highlanders.
After their defeat at Fontenoy, and having been on the move from 2 am on 11 May, then having fought a battle, the exhausted troops of the Allied army retreated to Ath, a march of about 24 km (15 miles). The encampment is shown on the west side of the River Dendre, extending for a distance of about 6 km (3.7 miles) from Herbaix (Rebaix 50°39'35"N 03°46'59"E) in the north, passing southwards between Villers-Saint-Amand (50°37'21"N 03°43'53E) and Ath, to just north of Maffle (50°37'04"N 03°48'11"E).
Additional text: [bottom right, in otherwise blank rectangular panel, presumably intended for the title:] depuis le 12 jusqu'au 16. May / 1745.
Condition: one fold line. Verso: a small remnant of paper at each corner, perhaps where the map was formerly pasted to a more substantial sheet of paper.
George Augustus Schultz (active 1734-49) (surveyor and draughtsman)
Watermark: Cross in shield, surmounted by a crown
Mark, stamped: 446
Condition: one fold line. Verso: a small remnant of paper at each corner, perhaps where the map was formerly pasted to a more substantial sheet of paper
Scale: 1:22,200 approx. Scale bar: [73 mm =] 2000 pas.
27.1 x 36.7 cm (image and neatline)
29.6 x 37.6 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Additional text:
depuis le 12 jusqu'au 16. May / 1745. [bottom right, in otherwise blank rectangular panel, presumably intended for the title]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment near Ath 12-16 May 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil:] 47.; [top right, black pencil, below remnant of paper: illegible]; [bottom right, ink, in an eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century hand, perhaps written when the collection was being catalogued by George III's librarian:] Plan du Campement de l'Armée Aliée [sic] / proche d'Ath du 12.e au 16.e de May 1745 / par M. Schultz.
George III catalogue entry:
Ath Plan dessiné du Campement de l'Armée Alliée pres d'Ath, depuis le 12 jusqu'au 16 May 1745: [in red ink:] par M. Schultz. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Ath, Walloon Region, Belgium (50°37'45"N 03°46'40"E)
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