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
Map of Brabant, 1746 (Belgium; North Brabant, Netherlands)
1748 or laterEngraving; printed from eight copperplates on eight sheets of paper; hand-coloured; mounted on linen. Manuscript annotations in red, orange, blue, green, and yellow ink on printed base; blank margins of map coloured yellow. | Scale: 1:113,900,000 approx. | RCIN 731001
A map, with manuscript annotations, of Brabant showing the march routes and encampments of the Allied army during 1748. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with north to top.
This map appears to comprise sheets 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, of Crepy's republication, for the market created by the War of the Austrian Succession, of Eugene Henri Fricx's Carte des Pays-Bas et des frontières de France (1703-12) to which his nephew, George Fricx, added four northern sheets sometime during the war, two of which form the basis of the northern part of this assemblage. The map has been used as a base on which to plot the movements of the armies in 1746. The annotations are all by François Hancko.
Etienne Louis Crepy (c.1700-59) (publisher) [following on from title:] Se Vend APARIS Chez Crepy rue S.t Jacques a l’Image S.t Pierre [bottom right of scales:] avec Priv. du Roy M.D.CC.XLVI.
Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730) (cartographer)
George Fricx (active 1740s) (cartographer)
François Hancko (active 1741-8) (annotator)
Subject(s)
Army-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Army-AustriaArmy-FranceArmy-GBArmy-HanoverArmy-HesseArmy-DutchWatermark: None visible
Condition: folded along dissection lines to the size of one panel; from the positioning of the inscriptions on the verso, the map was stored in this way from the beginning, possibly in a portfolio or in a slip case in Cumberland's library. Heavy surface dirt along one edge on the verso indicates that the map had subsequently been stored as a roll as, indeed, is indicated by the K.Mil. placing (1.Tab.1). Holes along the bottom edge of the linen backing do not go through the paper of the map. The two top sheets are crisp impressions from relatively unworn plates
Scale: 1:113,900,000 approx. Scale bars: Echelles Lieues d’un heures de Chemin [114 mm =] 2; Milles d’Angleterre [114 mm =] 5; Lieues Communes de France [78 mm =] 2; Lieues de Brabant [96 mm =] 2.
194.5 x 136.2 cm (image and sheet)
Printed title:
DUCHE / DE BRABANT / EVECHÉ ET PRINCIPAUTÉ DE LIEGE / Contenant aussi / Partie des Duchés de Juliers de Gueldres et de Limbourg / et Partie du Comté d’Hollande / DRESSÉ Sur les Memoires de Eugene Henry Friex / et Augmenté sur les Observations les plus nouvelles. [top right, in a rococo cartouche]
Manuscript title:
Carte de l’An[n]eé 1748 avec toutes les campements de l’Armeé / Allieé sous les comandement de S: A: R: Monseig[r]: le Duc / de Cumberland. Et avec toutes les Marches de l’Armeé / François pour investir Mastricht qui sont marqué en / Rouge. les nations sont distingué par couleurs les Anglois / sont en Rouge les Hanov: en jaune les Hessois en pael bleu. les / Autriche: en Verd. les Hollandois en Orange. les François en bleu. / ♂: [this symbol, but without the left wing of the arrow head:] marque du quartier general. les campaments sont distingué / par les chiffres et dattes. les chiffres sont mise ou l’Armeé a fait / le Front . les marches Routes de l’Armeé Allieé sont en bleu. [bottom right, in a manuscript rectangular panel, with yellow border, in red ink in François Hancko's hand]
Insets:
[across top of map, irregular sizes contained within a rococo border:]
ANVERS [with an alphabetical key, A-I, K-V, X-Y, to places in the city]; scale: Echelle De trois Cent Soixente et quinse Toises [41 mm =]; size: 26.0 (longest extent) x 12.2 cm (neatline).
BRUXELLES [with a short history of the city]; size: 17.5 (longest extent) x 19.6 cm (neatline).
BREDA [outline of fortifications only; with a short history]; size: 15.0 (longest extent) x 13.4 cm (neatline).
BOIS LE DUC [outline of fortifications only; alphabetical key, A-E, to places on the map; with a short history]; size: 16.2 (longest extent) x 10.6 cm (neatline).
LEAU size: 5.8 x 10.0 cm (neatline).
MAESTRICHT [with alpha-numerical key, A-E, 1-2, to places on the map]; scale: Echelle de trois Cent Toises [33 mm =]; size: 12.0 (longest extent) x 10.0 cm (neatline).
MALINES [outline only; with short history]; size: 12.1 x 17.0 cm (neatline).
BERGH-OP-ZOOM [outline only; with short history]; size: 6.7 (longest extent) x 17.0 cm (neatline).
RURMONDE [street layout with three-dimensional representations of churches; with short history]; scale: Echelle de 600. Toises [20 mm =]; size: 10.5 x 17.1 cm (neatline).
LIEGE [street layout; alphabetical key, A-I, K-P, to places on the map].Additional text:
[bottom left of scale bars, in title cartouche:] On trouve aussi Chés le dit Crepy du même auteur le Comté de Flandre en 5. / feuiles le Comté de Hainaut en 3. feuilles avec les plans fortifié des / Villes que contienent c’est provinces / et la Carte détaillé des / Pays Bas / en 15. / feuilles.
Annotations:
George III heading: [bottom right, black pencil:] Brabant XI/1 1748.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right panel, ink, crossed out in red pencil:] Theatre; [centre, a paper label pasted down onto the canvas, yellow and black border, red ink in Hancko's hand:] Carte de l’Anneé 1748 / avec toutes les campements de / l’Armeé Allieé sous le coman: / : dement de S: A: R: Monseige / le Duc de Cumberland. et / avec toutes les Marches de / l’Armeé Françoise pour / investir Mastricht. [bottom right of centre, red pencil:] 12/2 [and, black pencil:] XIV[/?]; [along left edge, black pencil, in large lettering highly scrolled:] C N. [On top left panel, a small white red-printed Royal Library label with, in a modern hand, in red ink:] XI.1. Brabant.
George III catalogue entry:
Brabant Friex's Map of the Duchy of Brabant; with the Encampments of the Allied Army under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, 1748, and the Marches of the French Army to invest Maestricht, 1748. MS. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
Title [ink:] Friex’s Map of the Duchy of Brabant: with the Encampments of the Allied Army under the command / of the Duke of Cumberland, and the Marches of the French Army to invest Maestricht, 1748. MS. / A Roll … [black pencil:] 1 Table 1.st / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] Big: sep. sequence / George III heading [red ink:] Encampments in Brabant 1748 / [bottom right, black pencil in a nineteenth-century hand:] Other Copies of this Map. Geography CIII/26.
Watermark: J WHATMAN / 1811.
Size: 47.1 x 32.9 cm (sheet).Subject(s)
Belgium; North Brabant, Netherlands
Bibliographic reference(s)
M. van Egmond, Covens & Mortier. A map publishing house in Amsterdam 1685-1866, Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography 8. Houten, 2009, pp.120-122
C. Koeman, Atlantes neerlandici : bibliography of terrestrial maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Amsterdam, 1967-1972, vol.2, pp.109-110
P. van der Krogt, Advertenties voor kaarten, atlassen, globes e.d. in Amsterdamse franten 1621-1811, 1985
C. Lemoine-Isabeau, Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à la fin du XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle. Brussels, 1984, pp.83-95
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