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 Velzeke-Ruddershove and Sint-Maria-Latem, 1744
PLAN / Von der Situation und / dem Lager der Alÿrten Armée / Zwischen Velsicke und Marielathem / formiret [den] 2ten und gestanden / bis inc. [den] 22tn Junÿ / 1744
1744 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:34,400 approx. | RCIN 729007.d
A map of the camp of the Allied army between Velzeke-Ruddershove [Velsicke] and Sint-Maria-Latem [Marielathem], 2-22 June 1744. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north-east to top (cardinal points).
This is one of a set of six encampment maps of which the first one is missing (not present when catalogued in the early nineteenth century); see RCINs 729007.a-f. The linear extent of the camp was about 5.4 km (3.3 miles). The principal roads and settlements are drawn and distinction is made between cultivated land (shown by 'squares' of brown hatching drawn at different angles to represent ploughed fields), woodland, and scrub areas to each side of streams.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: C & I HONIG
Mark, stamped: 357
Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: 1:34,400 approx. Scale bar: [93 mm =] 4000 Schritt. (scale)
22.0 x 34.5 cm (neatline)
22.3 x 34.8 cm (image)
24.2 x 36.8 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / Von der Situation und / dem Lager der Alÿrten Armée / Zwischen Velsicke und Marielathem / formiret [den] 2ten und gestanden / bis inc. [den] 22tn Junÿ / 1744. [top left, in rectangular panel]
Manuscript title:
No: 4. [top right, outside border]
Additional text:
EXPLICATION der LETTERN. [bottom right, in rectangular panel, a key, A-I, K-Y, to the English regiments; a-i, k-z, to the Hanoverian regiments]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampments in the Netherlands 1744.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] 8/26; [top left, black pencil, erased:] IX/[?]; [top left, red pencil:] 2; [bottom left, black pencil, erased, underlined but illegible: a place-name].
George III catalogue entry:
Netherlands A Journal of the Campaign of 1744, with five Plans of the Encampments &.c of the Allied Army in the Netherlands. MS. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Velzeke-Ruddershove, Flanders, Belgium (50°52'58"N 03°46'58"E)
Sint-Maria-Latem, Flanders, Belgium (50°53'24"N 03°42'23"E)
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