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 Dingolfing, 1742
CAMP DE L'ARMÉE / DU ROY / A DINGELFING / depuis le 14. novembre / jusqu'au 2. decembre 1742
1742 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:15,000 approx. | RCIN 728077
In the same hand as RCIN 728072, Camp at Eger October 1742. 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 is artistically rendered in brown hachures and shading. A line of fire from an Austrian battery at Gottfriding is targeted on two infantry battalions at Dingolfing, a distance of about 2 km. It is possible that the folded size of the map, together with the annotation ‘Enc’, indicates that it was sent to England in dispatches.
Additional text: [bottom, in rectangular panel, a key, 1-55, A-B, to the encamped regiments and a note on the colouring of the regimental rectangles.]
Condition: six fold lines: formerly folded (map inwards) to 14.8 x 11.9 cm. Verso: surface dirt on outer fold lines; ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Strasburg lily and bend; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 307
Condition: six fold lines: formerly folded (map inwards) to 14.8 x 11.9 cm. Verso: surface dirt on outer fold lines; ghosting from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:15,000 approx. Scale bar: Echelle, d'un quart de Lieue de 600 Toises [80 mm =].
39.0 x 56.5 cm (neatline)
45.0 x 57.2 cm (image)
47.3 x 59.4 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
CAMP DE L'ARMÉE / DU ROY / A DINGELFING / depuis le 14. novembre / jusqu'au 2. decembre 1742. [top left, in rococo cartouche]
Additional text:
[bottom, in rectangular panel, a key, 1-55, A-B, to the encamped regiments and a note on the colouring of the regimental rectangles.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Dingelfing 12 Nov.r - 2 Dec.r 1742.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, ink:] Camp de L'armeé du Roy a Dingelfing / depuis Le 14. 9.bre jusqu'au 2.X.bre 1742;; [bottom centre, black pencil:] 38; [bottom centre, black pencil, erased: two numbers separated by a space:] 14 2; [bottom centre, black pencil, erased:] Dingelfing Nov. [?] Dec. 1742; [right centre, red pencil:] 38; [bottom, right of centre, red pencil:] 7/51; [bottom, left of last number, black pencil, partly erased:] Enc; [bottom right, black pencil:] 11.
George III catalogue entry:
Dingelfing Plan dessiné du Camp de l'Armée du Roy a Dingelfing depuis le 14 Nov.re jusqu'au 2 Dec.re 1742. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Dingolfing, Bavaria, Germany (48°38'00"N 12°30'00"E)
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