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 Westerlo, 1747
PLAN / Du Camp d'un Corps detaché / de l'Armée Alliée entre l'Abbaïe / de Tongerloo et le Village de / Westerloo êtant sous les Ordres / de S:C: le General de Sommerfeldt / de puis le 17 Juin 1747
1747 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; some pricking through | Scale: 1:7,850 approx. | RCIN 730122
Attention is paid to the detailed representation of tree-lined roads, rivers and settlements. Principal roads are annotated with their destination or origin. The detachment comprised British, Hanoverian and Hessian troops; it is not shown on the map at RCIN 730121. Regiments are not named.
Additional text: [bottom right, in rectangular panel, a key, A-G, to the disposition and numbers of battalions and suqadrons of the English, Hanoverian, and Hessian troops:] Explication.
Condition: five fold lines; formerly folded to 15.5 x 10.3 cm; induced discolouration and foxing on verso.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Cropped: fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, incomplete and illegible device below; countermark: I VILLEDARY
Mark, stamped: 615
Condition: five fold lines; formerly folded to 15.5 x 10.3 cm; induced discolouration and foxing on verso
Scale: 1:7,850 approx. Scale bar: [102 mm =] 1000 pas.
37.3 x 37.5 cm (neatline)
38.2 x 38.3 cm (image)
39.0 x 39.0 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / Du Camp d'un Corps detaché / de l'Armée Alliée entre l'Abbaïe / de Tongerloo et le Village de / Westerloo êtant sous les Ordres / de S:C: le General de Sommerfeldt / de puis le 17 Juin 1747. [top left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
Explication. [bottom right, in rectangular panel, a key, A-G, to the disposition and numbers of battalions and suqadrons of the English, Hanoverian, and Hessian troops]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Westerloo 17 June 1747.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, black pencil, erased:] XIII/34; [J?]; [bottom right, red pencil:] 11/36+.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Plan Dessiné du Camp d'un Corps detaché de l'Armée Alliée entre l'Abbaie de Tongerloo et le Village de Westerloo, etant sous les ordres du General de Sommerfeldt depuis le 27 Juin 1747. [The same entry appears under the heading Westerloo.]
Subject(s)
Westerlo (Flanders, Belgium) 51°05'25"N 04°54'55"E
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