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 Petegem, 1744
Plan du / Campement de L' Armée / Alliée à L'Abbaye de / Peteghem, le 4..me Octobre / N:S: 1744
1744 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:36,000 approx. | RCIN 729052
In the same hand as RCINs 729011-12, 729014, 729017, 729020-22, 729030, 729037-8, 729047-51, 729053-8.
Another neater copy of this map, in the same hand, is at RCIN 729051. The army had marched to Petegem from Avelgem, a distance of about 10 km (6.2 miles). The encampment, on the west side of the River Escaut (Scheldt), extends for a distance of about 10 km (6.2 miles) from Heurn (Heurne 50°52'51"N 03°37'33"E) in the north, south-westwards past Oudenaarde, through Petegem to south of Elsegem (50°49'24"N 03°32'09"E). The regimental rectangles are coloured according to nationality: British (red), Hanoverian (yellow), Dutch (blue), Austrian (green).
Condition: two fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration; top left, water-stained patch, shadow and ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label: VOL. V / 44.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys; countermark: C&IHONIG
Mark, stamped: 398
Condition: two fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration; top left, water-stained patch, shadow and ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label: VOL. V / 44
Scale: not stated. 1:36,000 approx.
21.8 x 39.4 cm (neatline)
22.8 x 40.3 cm (image)
24.2 x 40.7 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan du / Campement de L' Armée / Alliée à L'Abbaye de / Peteghem, le 4..me Octobre / N:S: 1744. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Annotations:
Encampment at Peteghem 4 Oct.r 1744.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, twice:] 22; [top right, black pencil:] 8. (Verso) [centre, red pencil:] 44; [bottom left, black pencil:] 44.
George III catalogue entry:
Peteghem Plan dessiné du Campement de l'Armée Alliée a l'Abbaye de Peteghem, le 4 Oct.re 1744. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Petegem, Flanders, Belgium (50°50'00"N 03°33'00"E)
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