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
Frontispiece for a collection of maps of encampments in the Netherlands, 1746
1746 or laterPen, ink on paper; a collection of nineteen folios, stitched together with string | 21.3 x 34.2 cm (image) | RCIN 730053.a
Condition: no fold lines; three small tears to bottom edge. Verso: some offsetting.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GBArmy-AustriaArmy-HanoverArmy-HesseArmy-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Army-DutchWatermark: C & I HONIG
Mark, stamped: 529
Condition: no fold lines; three small tears to bottom edge. Verso: some offsetting
21.3 x 34.2 cm (image)
20.8 x 33.6 cm (necklace)
24.0 x 37.4 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Receuil / des Camps, que l’Armée / Alliée aux Paÿs bas sous les / Ordres de Son Altesse Roÿal Mon= / seigneur le Duc Charles de / Lorraine a pris depuis le / 17 Juillet jusqu’au dernier Octob / de l’an 1746.
Annotations:
(Recto) [top left, black pencil, erased:] XII?[?]. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Encampment Receuil de 18 Plans dessinés des Camps que l’Armée Alliée sous les ordres du Duc Charles de Lorraine a pris dans les Pays Bas depuis le 17 Juillet jusqu’au 31 Oct.re 1746. [The same entry appears under the heading Netherlands.]
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