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 Dartford Heath, 1745
PLAN / OF THE ENCAMPMENT ON DARTFORD HEATH / AND OF THE TOWN AND ADJACENT'S VILEGE'S
1745Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on coarse linen | Scale: not stated. 1:18,000 approx. | RCIN 729071
The camp is represented by a solid elongated red rectangle; the position of the Rear Guards shows that it was facing south-west. No regiments are named. The style of draughting is naive, resembling more a medieval estate plan than a topographical survey from the 1740s.
Condition: no fold lines; trimmed to edge of image.
Joseph Dufaur (active 1745) (draughtsman) [top, below title, in title panel:] BY IOSEPH DUFAUR, ENGINEER 1745.
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters L V G below
Mark, stamped: 413
Condition: no fold lines; trimmed to edge of image
Scale: not stated. 1:18,000 approx.
25.3 x 29.7 cm (image)
19.6 x 29.8 cm (neatline)
26.1 x 29.8 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / OF THE ENCAMPMENT ON DARTFORD HEATH / AND OF THE TOWN AND ADJACENT'S VILEGE'S, [top, across top of map in rectangular panel]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment on Dartford Heath 1745.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] XI/7; [bottom right, black pencil:] XI/7; [bottom right, red pencil:] 9/70.
George III catalogue entry:
Dartford Heath A drawn Plan of the Encampment on Dartford Heath, and of the Town and adjacent Villages, 1745; by Joseph Dufaur Eng.r [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Dartford Heath, Kent, England, UK (51°25'54"N 00°11'24"E)
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