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 Drongen, 1744
Plan du / Campement de L'Aile / Droite à L'Abbaye de / Drongen le 15.e Octobre / N:S: 1744
1744 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx. | RCIN 729058
In the same hand as RCINs 729011-12, 729014, 729017, 729020-22, 729030, 729037-8, 729047-57.
Another copy of this map, in the same hand, is at RCIN 729057. The right wing of the Allied army comprised British and Hanoverian troops, coloured here in red and yellow, respectively. The march from Deinze to Drongen was about 11 km (6.8 miles). The camp extended for a distance of about 4 km (2.5 miles) from Mariekercke (Mariakerke, now in the suburbs of Ghent, 51°04'29"N 03°40'58"E) in the north, to Drongen in the south.
Condition: no fold lines; small hole, right, the result of ink acidity and abrasion; pinhole bottom right.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield
Mark, stamped: 404
Condition: no fold lines; small hole, right, the result of ink acidity and abrasion; pinhole bottom right
Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx.
21.2 x 24.3 cm (neatline)
22.0 x 25.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 26.1 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan du / Campement de L'Aile / Droite à L'Abbaye de / Drongen le 15.e Octobre / N:S: 1744. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Drongen 15 Oct.r 1744.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, red pencil:] 8/60; [top left, black pencil:] X/[20].
George III catalogue entry:
Drongen Plan dessiné du Campement de l'Aisle droite de l'Armée Alliée a l'Abbaye de Drongen, le 15 Oct.re 1744. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Drongen, Flanders, Belgium (51°03'02"N 03°39'23"E)
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