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 near Braunau, 1742
CARTE, DES ENVIRONS de BRAUNAU, Sur laquelle se trouve les Camps d'une partie de l'Armée du Roy, de l'Empereur, et de Celle des Ennemis
1742 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:29,000 approx. | RCIN 728078
In the same hand as RCIN 728072, Camp at Eger October 1742, and RCIN 728077, Camp at Dingolfing 1742. The old catalogue entry and heading refer to camps in November and December 1742, but the detail on the map, and the explanatory text, refer only to September and October. A detailed topographical map showing settlements, roads in ochre, meadowland or pasture in a flat green wash, cultivated land by brown cross hatching, sand and gravel banks by brown stippling, the relief artistically rendered in brown hachures and shading. The various positions, actions, and routes taken by the Pandours (an Austrian force) are marked.
Additional text: [right, down right side of map in rectangular panel, a key, 1-36, to some of the regiments and other significant military features; another key, A-G to various actions.]
Condition: six fold lines; formerly folded to 15.0 x 11.4 cm; ghosting from the former presence of Cumberland's cipher label.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Strasburg lily and bend
Mark, stamped: 308
Condition: six fold lines; formerly folded to 15.0 x 11.4 cm; ghosting from the former presence of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:29,000 approx. Scale bar: Echelle d'une demy Lieue de 1200: Toises [81 mm =].
30.6 x 27.3 cm (neatline)
33.1 x 43.1 cm (image)
35.3 x 45.8 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
CARTE, DES ENVIRONS de BRAUNAU, Sur laquelle se trouve les Camps d'une partie de l'Armée du Roy, de l'Empereur, et de Celle des Ennemis. [top, outside border]
Additional text:
[right, down right side of map in rectangular panel, a key, 1-36, to some of the regiments and other significant military features; another key, A-G to various actions.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments near Braunau 26 Nov.r-18 Dec.r 1742.
Other annotations: (Recto) [beneath scale bar, two words have been scraped off the map]. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, erased and partly illegible:] Braunau [?] 1742; [right, centre, red pencil:] 40; [bottom right, right of centre, red pencil:] 7/50; [bottom right, ink:] Environs de Braunau 1742; [bottom centre, black pencil:] 40.
George III catalogue entry:
Braunau Carte dessinée des Environs de Braunau sur laquelle se trouvent les Camps d'une partie de l'Armée du Roy, de l'Empereur, et de celle des Ennemis; depuis le 26 Nov.re jusqu'au 18 Dec.re 1742.
Subject(s)
Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria (48°15'22"N 13°02'36"E)
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