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
Encampments near the Rhine, 1743
1743 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on two sheets of thin paper, joined | Scale: 1:90,000 approx. | RCIN 728104.c
The maps were formerly kept in a thick light buff rag folder, 50.5 x 31.4 cm (folded size), on the front of which is inscribed, in ink: No.s 328-330 / [old heading, red ink:] Battle of Dettingen 27 June 1743 and Encampments from that time to / the 13 Oct.r 1743 / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] (a b c Oct. '86).
Condition: two fold lines; yellow with age.
? George Augustus Schultz (active 1734-49) (cartographer)
Watermark: None
Mark, stamped: 330
Condition: two fold lines; yellow with age
Scale: 1:90,000 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de deux Heures [103 mm =].
21.7 x 59.5 cm (image and neatline)
22.6 x 60.1 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Annotations:
George III heading: Dettingen and Encampments.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil, erased:] Dettingen Germany; [bottom, left of centre, black pencil, erased:] IX/12-c; [top, left of centre, black pencil, cropped:] [?]-c
George III catalogue entry:
Dettingen Plan dessiné de la Bataille de Dettingen le 27 Juin 1743; avec un Plan des Campemens et Marches de l'Armée Alliée depuis la Bataille jusques a la fin de la Campagne de 1743, [in red ink:] par M.r Schultz. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
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